Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 76, Issue 5, Pages 1604-1611Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26354
Keywords
shimming; spinal cord; spine; susceptibility; phase imaging
Funding
- Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Canada Foundation for Innovation [32454]
- Canadian Institute of Health Research [CIHR FDN-143263]
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Sante [28826]
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Nature et Technologies [2015-PR-182754]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [435897-2013]
- Quebec BioImaging Network
- Polytechnique MEDITIS
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Purpose: A novel multichannel shim array is introduced to improve MRI and spectroscopic studies of the human spinal cord. Methods: Twenty-four-channel shim and 8-channel transceiver arrays were designed to insert into the patient bed table to lie in close proximity to the subject's spine. The reference field patterns of each of the shim channels (Hz/A) were determined empirically via gradient echo field mapping and subsequently used to demonstrate shim performance at 3 Tesla using an ex vivo phantom, which incorporated a fixed human spine. The shim was further demonstrated on five healthy volunteers. Results: Application of the shim to the ex vivo phantom reduced the standard deviation of the field over the spinal volume of interest (123.4 cm(3)) from an original 51.3 Hz down to 32.5 Hz, amounting to an improvement in field homogeneity of 36.6%. In vivo, the spine shim resulted in an average improvement in field homogeneity of 63.8+/-15.4%. Conclusion: The localized spine shim offers a promising new means of correcting magnetic field distortion in the spinal cord. (C) 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
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