A head coil and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus employing the same. The head coil may increase a field of view by allowing a housing over the eyes of a patient to be closely fitted around the head of the patient. The head coil includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) coil elements, a first housing, and a second housing configured to receive the head of a patient along with the first housing, wherein the first and second housings are changed or modified to have any of receiving spaces of different sizes to correspond to any of different head sizes of patients.
