Transmit Arrays and Amplifiers

Hall 15.2/Stockholm     16:30 - 18:30         Chairs: Ed B. Boskamp and Paul R. Harvey

Time

Prog #

 
16:30 164.

Stripline/TEM Transceiver Array for 7T Body Imaging

Carl J. Snyder1, Lance DelaBarre1, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele1, Angela Lynn Styczynski Snyder1,

Can Akgun1, Jinfeng Tian1, Greg Metzger1, Kamil Ugurbil1, 2, J Thomas Vaughan1

1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnsota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 2Hochfeld-Magnetresonanz-Zentrum, Max Plank Institut für Biologische Kybernetic, Tübingen, Germany
 

16:42 165.

Comparison of Three Transmit Arrays for Parallel Transmit

Vijayanand Alagappan1, Elfar Adalsteinsson2, Kawin Setsompop2, Ulrich Fontius3, Adam Zelinski2,

Graham Wiggins1, Franz Hebrank4, Franz Schmitt3, Lawrence Wald1

1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;

2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 3Siemens Medical Solutions,

Erlangen, Germany; 4Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
 

17:54 166.

A 32 Channel Transmit/Receive Transmission Line Head Array for 3D RF Shimming

Gregor Adriany1, Ark Gozubuyuk1, Edward Auerbach1, Pierre-Francois van de Moortele1, Peter Andersen1,

Tommy Vaughan1, Kamil Ugurbil1

1University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 

18:06 167.

An Eight-Channel 3D-Segmented RF Coil for Parallel Transmission at 3T

Peter Vernickel1, Jens Eichmann2, Ingmar Graesslin1

1Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; 2TU Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
 

17:18 168.

Signal Vector Decoupling for Transmit Arrays

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

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
 

17:30 169.

A High Speed Vector Modulation Array System

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

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
 

17:42 170.

Active Digital Decoupling for Multi-Channel Transmit MRI Systems

Peter Vernickel1, Christian Findeklee1, Jens Eichmann2, Ingmar Grässlin1

1Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; 2TU Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
 

17:54 171.

High Power, High Efficiency On-Coil Current-Mode Amplifier for Parallel Transmission Arrays

Jeremiah Aaron Heilman1, Matthew J. Riffe, Oliver Heid2, Mark A. Griswold

1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
 

18:06 172.

Ultra-Low Output Impedance RF Power Amplifier Array

Xu Chu1, Yunfeng Liu1, Juan Sabate2, Yudong Zhu2

1GE Global Research Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2GE Global Research Center,

Niskayuna, New York, USA
 

18:18 173.

RF Shimming with a Conventional 3T Body Coil

Graeme McKinnon1, Ricardo Becerra1, David Wheeler1, Scott Lindsay1

1GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA