Zhe Wang1, Fangrong Zong2, Cheng Fang1, Wenhui Yang3,4, Shasha Yue1, Yan Hou2, Zehui Li2, Tianyu Xie2, Kun Zhang2, Yan Zhuo1,4,5, Xiaohong Joe Zhou6, Xiaoliang Zhang7, and Rong Xue1,4,8
1State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 5CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 6Center for MR Research and Departments of Radiology, Neurosurgery and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 7Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, 8Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders, Beijing, China
1State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 5CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 6Center for MR Research and Departments of Radiology, Neurosurgery and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 7Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, 8Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders, Beijing, China
A nested dual-tuned proton-sodium loop-array transceiver coil was designed for 9.4T MRI with RF shimming for both nuclei. High quality proton and sodium images on a water phantom were successfully collected at the same location, which sufficiently provide
convenience for patients.
Figure 1 Photography of the first 9.4T whole-body
(830 cm diameter) ultra-high field MRI in China (a), the nested dual-tuned
proton-sodium multi-channel loop-array transceiver coil (b) and the RF interface
(c).
Figure 4 Proton（left）and sodium（right）images obtained by the dual-tuned coil array at 9.4 T.
