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Concept for RF-Safe Electrophysiology Pacing Catheters Using a Transformer-Based Transmission Line - not available

Oliver Lips¹, Daniel Wirtz¹, Sascha Krüger¹, Bernd David¹, Steffen Weiss¹

¹Philips Research Europe - Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

High-Field Actively Detuneable Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) Coil with Low Bias Voltage

for High Power RF Transmission

Nikolai I. Avdievich¹, Ken Bradshaw², Andrei M. Kuznetsov¹, Hoby P. Hetherington¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²MR Instruments Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

High-Field Double-Tuned TEM/Birdcage Hybrid Volume Coil for Human Brain Imaging.

Nikolai I. Avdievich¹, Alexey S. Peshkovsky², Hoby P. Hetherington¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²RF Sensors, LLC, New York, New York, USA

Optimized Asymmetric Quadrature Split Birdcage Coil for Hyperpolarized ³He Lung MRI at 1.5T

Nicola De Zanche¹, Navjeet Chhina², Kevin Teh³, Chris Randell², Jim M. Wild³

¹University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²PulseTeq Ltd., Wotton-under-Edge, UK; ³University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

An 8 Channel 23Na Heart Array for Application at 3 T

Titus Lanz¹, Michael Mayer¹, Matthew D. Robson², Stefan Neubauer², Jan Ruff³, Alexander Weisser¹

¹Rapid Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany; ²Oxford University, Oxford, UK; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

32 Channel Receive-Only SENSE Array for Brain Imaging at 7T

Patrick Joseph Ledden¹, Azma Mareyam¹, Shumin Wang², Peter van Gelderen², Jeff Duyn²

¹Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA; ²NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA

Design Optimization and SNR Performance of 3T 96 Channel Phased Array Head Coils

Graham Charles Wiggins¹, Vijay Alagappan¹, Andreas Potthast², Melanie Schmitt¹, Christopher John Wiggins¹, Hubertus Fischer², Karsten Jahns², Thomas Benner¹, Jonathan Polimeni¹, Lawrence L. Wald¹

¹MGH Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

128-Channel Body MRI with a Flexible High-Density Receiver-Coil Array

Christopher J. Hardy¹, Randy O. Giaquinto¹, Joseph E. Piel¹, Kenneth W. Rohling¹, Luca Marinelli¹, Eric W. Fiveland¹, Charles J. Rossi¹, Keith J. Park¹, Robert D. Darrow¹, Ronald D. Watkins¹, Thomas K. Foo¹

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

A 128 Channel Receive-Only Cardiac Coil for 3T

Melanie Schmitt¹, Andreas Potthast², David E. Sosnovik¹, Graham C. Wiggins¹, Christina Triantafyllou¹, ³, Lawrence L. Wald¹

¹MGH, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA; ³MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

A MRI System with 128 Seamlessly Integrated Receive Channels

Andreas Potthast¹, Bernd Kalnischkies², Gernot Kwapil², Lawrence L. Wald³, Thomas Heumann², Sven Helmecke², Stefan Schor², Georg Pirkl², Matthias Buettner⁴, Melanie Schmitt³, Gerald Mattauch², Michael Hamm², Peter Stransky², Rudi Baumgartl², Franz Xaver Hebrank¹, Michael Peyerl²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Astrum IT, Erlangen, Germany