TRADITIONAL POSTERS

MRI Systems

                  988.      Accelerated Real-Time MRI with Distributed Computing Using Standard Scanner Hardware
 

Ethan K. Brodsky¹, Walter F. Block¹

¹University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  989.      Reducing Data Handling Issues in Large Coil Arrays by ‘If’ Undersampling
 

Naresh Yallapragada¹, Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  990.      Ultra High-Order Global Shimming of the Mouse Brain Using Diamagnetic and
                              Paramagnetic Passive Shims
 

Kevin M. Koch¹, Peter B. Brown¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹, Robin A. de Graaf¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  991.      Development of a Compact MRI Using a Permanent Magnet for Trabecular
                              Bone Microstructure Measurements
 

Sadanori Tomiha¹, Shinya Handa¹, Katsumi Kose¹, Tomoyuki Haishi²

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²MRTechnology, Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  992.      Gradient Coil Array for the Super-Parallel MRI: Experimental Evaluation
 

Fumi Okada¹, Shinya Handa¹, Katsumi Kose¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  993.      Residual Magnetism in an MR Suite After Field-Rampdown of an 8T Superconducting Magnet

Steffen Sammet¹, Regina Maria Koch¹, Francisco Aguila¹, Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  994.      An Efficient Multiple Field of View Gradient Coil Set

Qin Liu¹, Anthony Mantone², Graeme C. McKinnon¹, Michael B. Sellers³

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Florence, South Carolina, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Oxford, UK

                  995.      Investigation of Dynamic Range Requirement for MRI Signal Transmission by Optical Fiber Link
 

Jing Yuan¹, Juan Wei¹, Chenpeng Du², Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²MRI Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  996.      Designing Active Feedback-Based Contrast Enhancement for In Vivo Imaging
 

Susie Yi Huang¹, Dennis W. Hwang², Lian-Pin Hwang², ³, Yung-Ya Lin⁴

¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  997.      Ultra-Efficient Shielded Dome Gradient Coils
 

Michael Poole¹, Richard Bowtell¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

                  998.      Radiation Gel Dosimetry Using an Earth Field NMR Relaxometer
 

Maarten Veevaete¹, Oliver Bislich¹, Helmut Wiliam Fischer¹

¹University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

                  999.      MRI/PET Insert: Investigations of Eddy Currents on Copper Shields in the Bore
 

Bo Joseph Peng¹, Jeff Walton¹, Ciprian Catana¹, Simon R. Cherry¹, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, ¹²

¹University of California, Davis, California, USA; ²Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA

                  1000.    Homogeneity and Shimming Requirements for a Field-Cycled MRI/PET Scanner
 

Kyle Michael Gilbert¹, William Bradfield Handler¹, Timothy James Scholl¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1001.    Digital Wireless Transmission for MRI Signals
 

Juan Wei¹, Guang Zheng Liu², Jing Yuan¹, Yong Pang¹, Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²Tianjin University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

                  1002.    A Wide Band Frequency Transverter for High Field MRI
 

Ralph Oppelt¹, Jan Bollenbeck¹, Philipp Höcht¹, Wilfried Schnell¹

¹Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany

                  1003.    MRI and the Cell Processor
 

Joseph Czechowski¹, Stephen Zingelewicz¹, Branden Moore¹, Luca Marinelli¹, Christopher Hardy¹, Mohamed El-Demerdash²

¹General Electric Company, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²General Electric Company, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1004.    First Order Dynamic Shimming for  7 Tesla  Human Imaging

Saikat Sengupta¹, Malcolm J. Avison¹, David Foxall², John Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1005.    An Independent Spectrometer and Coil Insert for Research on Clinical MR Systems

Martyn NJ Paley¹, Eugeny Krjukov¹, James M. Wild¹, Paul D. Griffiths¹, Michael Lamperth², Ian R. Young²

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK; ²Imperial College, London, UK

                  1006.    Integrated Low Noise Amplifier and Balun for MRI Receiver-On-Coils

Michael A. de Rooij¹, William E. Burdick¹

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

MRI Systems & Gradients

                  1007.    Fully Integrated Whole Body 3T MRI System for Parallel RF Transmission

Ingmar Graesslin¹, Peter Vernickel¹, Joachim Schmidt¹, Christian Findelklee¹, Peter Roeschmann¹, Ulrich Katscher¹, Christoph Leussler¹, Paul Haaker¹, Kai-Michael Luedeke¹, Jochen Keupp¹, Peter Börnert¹, Henk Dingemans², Giel Mens², Krelis Blom², Jan vd. Heijden², Paul Harvey², Johan Overweg¹

                                  ¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                   1008.    Efficient RF Coil Simulations with Curvilinear Quadrilateral-Element Method of Moments

                                  Shumin Wang¹, Patrick J. Ledden², Jeff H. Duyn¹

¹LFMI/NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Nova Medical, Inc, Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA

                  1009.    Modeling Loaded RF Coils Using the Method of Moments

Aghogho Obi¹, Rostislav Lemdiasov², Reinhold Ludwig¹, Gene Bogdanov¹

¹Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²Insight Neuroimaging LLC, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  1010.    Boundary Element Method for Calculation of Induced Electric Fields Due to Switched
                             Magnetic Field Gradients and Movement in Strong Static Fields

Clemente Cobos Sanchez¹, Paul M. Glover¹, Henry Power¹, Liviu Marin¹, Adib Becker¹, Arthur Jones¹, Richard W. Bowtell¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  1011.    Effect of Head Size to B1, SNR and SAR

Jinfeng Tian¹, Carl J. Snyder¹, Lance Delabarre¹, can Akgun¹, Wanzhan Liu¹, Christopher M. Collins², Anand Gopinath¹, Thomas Vaughan¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1012.    The Effect of Shield Proximity on the Mode Distribution of a Birdcage Resonator

Shahed Reza¹, Sathya Vijayakumar¹, Randy Duensing¹, Feng Huang¹, Mark Limkeman¹, Charles Saylor¹

¹Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1013.    A Whole-Body 7 Tesla RF Excitation Scheme with Much Improved B1+ Field Homogeneity
                              and Local/Global SARs Over Quadrature Excitation

Tamer Selim Ibrahim¹, ², Lin Tang²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

                  1014.    FDTD Simulations of RF Inhomogeneities in Ultrahigh-Field MRI Systems of Up to 11.7 T

Masaki Sekino¹, Shoogo Ueno², Hiroyuki Ohsaki¹

¹The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; ²Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

                  1015.    Tapered Head Gradient Coil Design Using the Wave Equation Method

Viktor Vegh¹, Huawei Zhao¹, Graham J. Galloway¹, Ian M. Brereton¹

¹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                  1016.    Improved Fourier Based Method for Calculating Field Inhomogeniety from Known
                             Susceptibility Distribution

Jaladhar Neelavalli¹, Yu Chung Norman Cheng², Ewart Mark Haacke²

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²Wayne State University, Michigan, USA

                  1017.    Simulations of a 3D-Segmented Asymmetric Body Coil for Parallel Transmission

Ingmar Graesslin¹, Sven Biederer¹, Konstantinos Falaggis¹, Dennis Glaesel¹, Peter Vernickel¹, Ulrich Katscher¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

                  1018.    A 14.1 Tesla Animal Coil Design for Homogenous and Focused RF Excitation

Tamer Selim Ibrahim¹, ², Vanishree Ranganath²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

                  1019.    A Proposed Ultra High Field RF Coil Design for Axial Human Brain Imaging

Tamer Selim Ibrahim¹, ², Roney Abraham²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

                  1020.    Decoupling of a Multi Channel Transmit/Receive Coil Array Via Impedance Inversion
 

Christian Findeklee¹, Jens Eichmann², Peter Vernickel¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²Hamburg University of Technology TUHH, Hamburg, Germany
 

                  1021.    Field Propagation Phenomena in Ultra High Field NMR: A Maxwell-Bloch Formulation

Andrew JM Kiruluta¹

¹Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  1022.    RF Shimming Considering Both Excitation Homogeneity and SAR

Zhangwei Wang¹, Suk-hoon Oh¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Christopher M. Collins¹

¹The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1023.    Simulation of the Effect of Mode Coupling on SAR for a Birdcage Resonator

Shahed Reza¹, Randy Duensing¹, Sathya Vijayakumar¹, Feng Huang¹, Mark Limkeman¹, Charles Saylor¹

¹Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1024.    Composite Shim Coil Design for System-Specific Field Corrections

Parisa Jamali¹, Blaine A. Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

RF Coil:  Non-Arrays

                  1025.    A Rigid Analysis and Experiments for the Complementary Modes in the Multi-Port Reception
                              of a Volume Strip Array

Ray F. Lee¹, Rong Xue¹

¹New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

                  1026.    4 Channel Mouse Array at 7 Tesla

Marcos Alonso Lopez¹, Felix Breuer², Nicole Seiberlich¹, Daniel Gareis¹, Sabine Voll¹, Peter Michael Jakob¹, ²

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany; ²Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria (MRB), Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

                  1027.    Parallel Transmission with an 8 Channel Whole Body System at 3 T

Juergen Nistler¹, Ulrich Fontius¹, Lawrence L. Wald², Elfar Adalsteinsson³, Kawin Setsompop³, Vijay Anand Alagappan², Franz Hebrank⁴, Franz Schmitt¹, Wolfgang Renz¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²MGH Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1028.    A Degenerate Birdcage Coil for Parallel Excitation
 

Vijayanand Alagappan¹, Juergen Nistler², Elfar Adalsteinsson³, Kawin Setsompop³, Ulrich Fontius², Adam Zelinski³, Markus Vester², Graham Wiggins⁴, Franz Hebrank⁵, Wolfgang Renz², Franz Schmitt², Lawrence Wald⁴

¹Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁵Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1029.    Towards a Complete Coil Array
 

Zhiyue J. Wang¹, ²

¹Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

                 
                  1030.    B₁⁺ Region of Interest Localization Through Convex Optimization

Christopher Carl Olson¹, Lance DelaBarre¹, John Thomas Vaughan¹, Anand Gopinath¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1031.    A Novel RF Head Coil for 7T Homogeneity and Parallel Imaging Applications

Can Eyup Akgun¹, Carl J. Snyder¹, Lance DelaBarre¹, Jinfeng Tian¹, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele¹, Steen Moeller¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, John Thomas Vaughan¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1032.    Comparison of Array Decoupling Mechanisms on Rat Arrays at 1.5 T

Tobias Wichmann¹, ², Titus Lanz¹, Peter M. Jakob³

¹Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; ²Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg, Germany; ³University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

                  1033.    Comparison Between Broadband Decoupling Methods for Microstirp Array

Bing Wu¹, ², Yong Pang², Juan Wei², Peng Qu², Chunsheng Wang², Jing Yuan², Gary X. Shen²

¹GE Healthcare, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

                  1034.    An Inverse Method for Designing RF Phased Arrays with Optimal Coil Geometry

Peter Thomas While¹, Larry K. Forbes¹, Stuart Crozier²

¹University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; ²University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                  1035.    The Novel 12 Channel Octahedral Transmit/receive Array for Parallel Imaging of Human Head at 3 T.

Evgeniya Kirilina¹, Thomas Riemer², Wolfgang Driesel³, Harald E. Moeller³, Frank Seifert¹

¹Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany; ²IZKF, Leipzig, Germany; ³Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

                  1036.    A 4-Channel Optical Link Transmission for RF Coil Array at 1.5T

Jing Yuan¹, Juan Wei¹, Guang Cao², Yong Pang³, Chenpeng Du³, Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Medical System Asia, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ³MRI Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  1037.    Low Noise Preamplifier with Integrated Cable Trap

Martin L. Hergt¹, Ralph Oppelt², Markus D. Vester¹, Arne Reykowski³, Klaus M. Huber², Karsten Jahns¹, Hubertus J. Fischer¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²Siemens Cooperate Technology, Erlangen, Germany; ³Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1038.    A 3D Parallel Imaging Capable Transmit and 16-Channel Receive Array Knee Coil at 3T

Xiaoyu Yang¹, ², Tsinghua Zheng¹, ², Hiroyuki Fujita¹, ²

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1039.    Evaluation of a Degenerated Birdcage Coil for Parallel Imaging

Chunsheng Wang¹, Peng Qu¹, Jing Yuan¹, Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

                  1040.    3D-Orthogonal Phased Array Coil for High-Resolution and Low-Distortion EPI Imaging
                              of Monkey Brain at 3.0T

Zhigang You¹, Wingchi Edmund Kwok¹, Mithun Mukherjee¹, Marc Mancarella¹

¹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

                  1041.    Comparison of FP, VCSEL and DFB Laser Diode in Optical Transmission for MR RF Coil Array

Chenpeng Du¹, Jing Yuan¹, Gary Xiong Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  1042.    A Continuous Capacitance Loop Detector for High Sensitivity 7T MRI

Lucas Carvajal¹, Kostas Karpodinis¹, Duan Xu¹, Daniel B. Vigneron¹

¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  1043.    SNR and G-Factor Optimized 16-Channel Anterior Cardiac Array for 3T

Mike J. Smith¹, ², Scott B. King¹, ²

¹National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  1044.    Comparison of Transceive Phased Array with TEM Volume Coil for Human Brain Imaging at 4 T.

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

                  1045.    B₁⁺ Homogeneity and SAR Reduction for Localized Excitation at 7T

Bob van den Bergen¹, Cornelis A T van den Berg¹, L W. Bartels¹, Jan J. W. Lagendijk¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

                  1046.    The Efficiency of 3T Body Transmit Array Coils

Eddy B. Boskamp¹, Scott A. Lindsay¹, John E. Lorbiecki¹, Graeme C. McKinnon¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1047.    Experimental Phased-Array Excitation Guided Utilizing a Computational Electromagnetic
                              Model: Initial Findings

Tamer Selim Ibrahim¹, YiK-Kiong Hue¹, Fernando Boada¹, Juergen Nistler², Joerg Ulrich Fontius², Franz Schmitt²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Siemens Medical Systems,

                  1048.    Array SNR and Coupling Versus the Input Impedance of the Preamplifiers

Eddy B. Boskamp¹, Ke Feng², Bijay K. Shah², Steven M. Wright²

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ²Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  1049.    Optimized Quadrature Surface Coils Incorporating Circular, Figure-8 Loops, and Strips

Ananda Kumar¹, Paul Arthur Bottomley¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1050.    Simple Digital Tuning System for Large Arrays of Coils

Ke Feng¹, Mary Preston McDougall¹, Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  1051.    Stretchable Coil Arrays

Jurek Antonin Massner¹, Nicola De Zanche¹, Klaas P. Pruessmann¹

¹University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  1052.    Wavelet-Based Mode-Scanning Excitation (MSE) for Selective Excitation at High Field

Ray F. Lee¹, Ting Song², Rong Xue¹, Andrew F. Laine²

¹New York University Medical Center, New York, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, USA

                  1053.    An Open 16-Channel Transmission Line Array for 7T

Joshua J. Holwell¹, ², Simon A. Lovell¹, Kenneth M. Bradshaw¹, Eddie J. Auerbach², Gregor Adriany², J Thomas Vaughan²

¹MR Instruments Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1054.    B1 Transmit Field Manipulation at 7 Tesla Using Controlled Decoupling of Array Coil Elements (CODACE)

Graham Charles Wiggins¹, Elizabeth Zakszewski², Christopher John Wiggins¹, Lawrence L. Wald¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  1055.    20 Channel Coil Array for High Resolution Imaging of the Optic Nerve

J. Rock Hadley¹, Emilee Minalga¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

RF Coil Technology:  Non-Array

                  1056.    Magnetic Resonance Microimaging of Adult Zebrafish Brain Using Cryoprobe Technology

A. Alia¹, S Kabli¹, D. Gross², D. Marek³, T. Oerther², M. Sacher⁴, H. P. Spaink⁵, H. J.M. de Groot¹

¹Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; ²Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³Bruker BioSpin AG, Fallanden, Switzerland; ⁴Bruker BioSpin AG, Fallanden, Switzerland; ⁵Institute of Biology, Leiden, Netherlands

                  1057.    A Circularly Polarized Birdcage Coil with a Single Port

Yoshihisa Soutome¹, Hideta Habara¹, Hisaaki Ochi¹

¹Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan

                  1058.    A Histological Slice Imaging Coil for 7.0 T MRI

Bu Sik Park¹, Mark D. Meadowcroft¹, Christopher Michael Collins¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Qing X. Yang¹

¹The Pennsylvania  State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1059.    MR-Guided Near-Infrared Spectroscopy System for Rodent Tumor Tomography

Brian W. Pogue¹, Scott C. Davis¹, Jia Wang¹, Subhadra Srinivasan¹, Summer L. Gibbs¹, Shudong Jiang¹, Keith D. Paulsen¹, Peter Mazurkewitz², Daniel Wirtz², Christoph Leussler²

¹Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA; ²Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

                  1060.    Multi Tuned Coupled Microstrip Resonator for High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging
                              at 9.4T Human System

Sasidhar Tadanki¹, Gene Bagadanov¹, Reinhold Ludwig¹, Mathew E. Brevard², Keith R. Thulborn³, Ian Atkinson³

¹Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²Insight Neuroimaging Systems,LLC, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ³University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1061.    Comparison of Sensitivity and SNR Between 25mm, 50mm and 75mm Diameter Round Coils
                              for Head Imaging on 7T

Akira Nabetani¹, ², Hiroyuki Kabasawa¹, ², Hitoshi Matsuzawa², Tsutomu Nakada²

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd., Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan; ²University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan

                  1062.    SAR and B1 Field in a Human Head Model for Birdcage, TEM and Microstrip Coils at 7T

Chunsheng Wang¹, Yong Pang¹, Bing Wu¹, Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

                  1063.    Homogeneity Improvement Using a 2 Port Birdcage Coil

Juergen Nistler¹, Dirk Diehl², Wolfgang Renz¹, Ludwig Eberler¹

¹Siemens Medical Solution, Erlangen, Germany; ²Siemens Corporate Technology, Erlangen, Germany

                  1064.    Selective Passive Shielding

Chris P. Bidinosti¹, Michael E. Hayden¹

¹Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

                  1065.    Quadrature Strip-Line Surface Coil for Ultra-High Field Imaging (7T)

Alexa Jones¹, Arthur William Magill¹, Paul Glover¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  1066.    A New Dedicated Coil Setup for In Vivo Measurement of Intramyocellular Lipids by 1H-MRS

Michael Neumaier¹, Heiko G. Niessen¹, Thomas Kaulisch¹, Detlef Stiller¹

¹Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach, Germany

                  1067.    Ultra-Sensitive Micron-Cantilever Detection for MRI

Modhurin Banerjee¹, Charles Paulson¹, Krishna Kurpad¹, Daniel M. Ruf¹, Daniel van der Weide¹, Thomas M. Grist¹

¹University of Wisconsin,Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1068.    HTS Surface Coil for MRI of the Patella

Jarek Wosik¹, Maged R. Kamel¹, Lei-Ming Xie¹, Lian Xue¹, Krzysztof Nesteruk², Alexander C. Wright³, Felix W.