Parallel RF Transmission Technology

Room 6E         16:30 - 18:30                     Chairs: David I. Hoult and Ulrich Katscher

Time

Prog #

 
16:30 121.

An 8 Channel Transmit Coil for Transmit Sense at 3T

Vijayanand Alagappan1, Graham C. Wiggins1, Andreas Potthast2, Kawin Setsompop3, Elfar Adalsteinsson3, 4

Lawrence L. Wald1, 4

1A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown,

Massachusetts, USA; 3MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 4Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge,

Massachusetts, USA

16:42 122.

Transmit Coil Array for Accelerating 2D Excitation on an Eight-Channel Parallel Transmit System

Yudong Zhu1, Randy Giaquinto1, Ronald Watkins1, Adam Kerr2, John Pauly2, Mika Vogel3, Joseph Piel1, Thomas Foo1, Ileana

Hancu1, Keith Park1

1GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 2Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 3GE Global Research

Center, Munich, Germany

16:54 123.

An Eight Channel Transmit/Receive Body Coil for 3T

Peter Vernickel1, Peter Röschmann2, Christian Findeklee2, Kai Michael Luedeke2, Christoph Leussler2,

Johan Overweg2, Ulrich Katscher2, Ingmar Graesslin2, Klaus Schuenemann3

1TuTech Innovation, Hamburg, Germany; 2Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 3Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
17:06 124.

Six Channel Transmit-Receive Coil Array for Whole Body Imaging at 4T

Sven Junge1, Peter Ullmann2, Frank Seifert3, Thorsten Thiel1

1Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; 2University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 3Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
17:18 125.

Implementation of Mode-Scanning Excitation Method with a 16-Ch Transmit/Receive Volume Strip Array at 7T

Ray F. Lee1, Ryan Brown2, Gabor Mizsei3, Rong Xue1, Tamer Ibrahim4, Hugo Chang5, Yi Wang2, Cornel Stephanescu1

1New York University, New York, USA; 2Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; 3Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 4University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA; 5Siemens Medical Solution, Inc., New York, New York, USA
17:30 126.

A 32 Channel Lattice Transmission Line Array for Parallel MRI

Gregor Adriany1, Ark Gozubuyuk1, Johannes Ritter1, Carl Snyder1, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele1, Steen Moeller1, J Thomas

Vaughan1, Kamil Ugurbil1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
17:42 127.

A Flexible 8-Channel RF Transmit Array System for Parallel Excitation

Ulrich Fontius1, Rudi Baumgartl1, Uwe Boettcher1, Gerald Doerfler1, Franz Hebrank2, Daniel Fischer1,

Hendrik Jeschke1, Stephan Kannengießer1, Gernot Kwapil1, Ulrich Nerreter1, Jürgen Nistler1, Georg Pirkl1,

Andreas Potthast2, Stefan Roell1, Stefan Schor1, Bernd Stoeckel3, Elfar Adelsteinson4, Gregor Adriany5,

Vijayanand Alagappan6, Borjan Gagoski4, Kawin Setsompop4, Lawrence L. Wald6, Franz Schmitt1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 3Siemens

Medical Solutions, New York, New York, USA; 4MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 5Center for MR Research, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, USA; 6MGH Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

17:54 128.

A Vector Modulation Transmit Array System

Greig Cameron Scott1, Pascal Stang1, William Overall1, Adam Kerr1, John Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
18:06 129.

Whole Body 3T MRI System with Eight Parallel RF Transmission Channels

Ingmar Graesslin1, Peter Vernickel2, Joachim Schmidt1, Christian Findeklee1, Peter Röschmann1, Christoph Leussler1, Paul Haaker1,

Horst Laudan1, Kai Michael Luedeke1, Josef Scholz1, Steffen Buller1, Jochen Keupp1, Peter Börnert1, Henk Dingemans3, Giel Mens3,

Gerrit Vissers3, Krelis Blom3, Nico Swennen3, Jan vd Heijden3, Leo Mollevanger3,  Paul Harvey3, Ulrich Katscher1

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2TuTech Innovation, Hamburg, Germany; 3Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands
18:18 130.

A Parallel Transceiver for Human Imaging at 9.4T

Lance DelaBarre1, Carl J. Snyder1, Kamil Ugurbil1, J Thomas Vaughan1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA