Combinable multi-part surface coil for magnetic resonance imaging

The invention relates to a local coil system for use in a magnetic resonance imaging system (101) - with a local coil base (2), and (3; 6; 7; 8; 9) - having a plurality of mutually different local coil top parts (3; 6; 7;, 8 9), each connected to the local coil base (2) to a local coil (1; 106) are connectable.