A radio frequency antenna comprising a resonant pickup circuit (102)
arranged to pick up a magnetic resonance signal, an analog-to-digital
converter (105) arranged to convert the magnetic resonance signal to
digital data, and a frequency converter arranged to convert a primary
band of frequencies of the digital data. By upshifting the frequency of
the transmitted bit-stream, it is possible to RF-trap the transmission
channel (109) by simple high-pass filtering techniques. In case the
transmitted bit pattern has frequency components that approach the
resonance frequency, an encoding technique like Manchester encoding can
be used to eliminate unwanted signals.