New Developments in Parallel Imaging RF Array Coil Design

Room 6C         11:00 - 13:00                 Chairs: Mary McDougall and Larence L. Wald

Time

Prog #

 
11:00 415.

A 32 Channel Receive-Only Head Coil and Detunable Transmit Birdcage Coil for 7 Tesla Brain Imaging

Graham Charles Wiggins1, Christopher John Wiggins1, Andreas Potthast2, Vijay Alagappan1, Oliver Kraff3,

Arne Reykowski4, Lawrence L. Wald1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA; 3University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; 4Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA
11:12 416.

An Adjustable 8-Channel Coil Array for MRI of the Human Wrist

Jurek Antonin Massner1, Nicola De Zanche1, Klaas Paul Pruessmann1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

11:24 417.

Experimental and Numerical Investigations of SENSE Array Performances from High to Ultra-High Field Strengths

Shumin Wang1, Patrick J. Ledden2, Jacco A. de Zwart1, Peter van Gelderen1, Alan Koretsky1, Jeff H. Duyn1

1LFMI, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA
11:36 418.

36 Channel Peripheral Angio Matrix Coil for 3 Tesla

Volker Matschl1, Helmut Kess1, Karsten Jahns1, Heinz Hahn1, Helmut Greim1, Harald Kramer2, Stefan Schoenberg2, Hubertus

Fischer1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2University of Munich - Grosshadern Campus, Munich, Germany
11:48 419.

An 8 Channel Shoulder Coil for High Resolusion Imaging

Yoshinori Hamamura1, Brian Brown1, Kyle Johnson1, Jeff Hathaway1, Ken Meurer1, Murray Wheeler1

1Invivo, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA
12:00 420.

An Optimised 16-Element Head Coil for 7T with Integrated Preamplifiers

Yun-Jeong Yang1, Nicholas Castrilla1, Cliff Mills1, Verna Fitzsimmons2, Joseph Murphy-Boesch1

1USA Instruments, Inc., Aurora, Ohio, USA; 2Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
12:12 421.

High-Field Transmission Line Arrays for Transmit and Receive

Carl J. Snyder1, Lance DelaBarre1, Can Akgun1, Steen Moeller1, Gregor Adriany1, Kamil Ugurbil1,

John Thomas Vaughan1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

12:24 422.

Twenty-Four Channel Receive-Only Array for Brain Imaging at 7T

Patrick J. Ledden1, Azma Mareyam1, Shumin Wang2, Peter van Gelderen2, Jeff H. Duyn2

1Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
12:36 423.

A 28 Channel Bi-Lateral Breast Array for Accelerated MR Imaging

Randy O. Giaquinto1, Charles McKenzie2, Daniel K. Sodickson2, Aaron K. Grant2, Gordon E. Murtagh1,

Robert L. Furman1, Leo J. Swider1, Christopher J. Hardy1, Charles L. Dumoulin1

1GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12:48 424.

Measuring Practical Coil Array Performance with Respect to Ultimate Intrinsic SNR: A Tool for Array Design and

Assessment

Riccardo Lattanzi1, 2, Aaron K. Grant2, Michael A. Ohliger1, 2, Daniel K. Sodickson, 12

1Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA