The invention relates to a local coil (1) with a magnetic resonance antenna group (2) comprising a plurality of antenna turns (3, 3A, 3E) arranged in adjacent rows (SR1, SR2, SR3) ), the antenna turns arranged adjacent to each other are inductively decoupled from each other through geometric overlap (UX, UZ), and the antenna turns are staggered in alternate directions (R1, R2, R3), so that two in a row The overlapping area of the antenna turns is staggered from the overlapping area of two antenna turns in an adjacent row, at least some of the antenna turns are designed to compensate for the stagger, so that they are redrawn as different areas and thus the antenna lines Adjacent rows of turns in the stagger direction terminate substantially at the front end and at the rear end, respectively, on a straight line ( L1 , L2 ) transverse to the stagger direction. The invention also relates to a magnetic resonance apparatus with such a local coil, a method for constructing such a local coil and a method for measuring magnetic resonance signals.