A Helmholtz probe made from two parallel‐plate bracelet resonators for nuclear magnetic resonance imaging experiments possesses a number of advantages such as high unloaded quality factor, absence of tuning capacitors, low cost, accessibility, easy to design, patient comfort, etc. Energy transfer to and from the probe is assured by a one‐turn loop magnetically coupled to the coils, disposing the pair of current feed lines needed for conventional Helmholtz coils. Design procedure and a practical example are given, showing good agreement between calculated and experimental results. ©1995 American Institute of Physics.