A local coil unit for a magnetic resonance apparatus, which radiates a radio-frequency
field into an examination subject, has a housing and at least a part of the housing
is formed of an insulating dielectric material that passively compensates for an
inhomogeneity in the high-frequency field in the subject. The material has a relative
dielectric value r of greater than 50, preferably greater than
100, and a dielectric loss factor tan of less than 2.510-2,
preferably less than 110-3. In the dielectric material displacement
currents are generated which create an additional magnetic field that compensates
for the minima in the B1 field as a result of the eddy currents arising in the
patient due to the radio-frequency radiation.