期刊
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 63, 期 6, 页码 1478-1485出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22413
关键词
RF coil design; transmit array; concentric coils; 7T; transmission line coils; high field
资金
- NIH [P41 RR08079, P30-NS057091, EB000331, EB000454, EB000895, EB006835, S10 RR1395]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- NSF [9907842]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [9907842] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Transmit and receive RF coil arrays have proven to be particularly beneficial for ultra-high-field MR. Transmit coil arrays enable such techniques as B(1)(+) shimming to substantially improve transmit B(1) homogeneity compared to conventional volume coil designs, and receive coil arrays offer enhanced parallel imaging performance and SNR. Concentric coil arrangements hold promise for developing transceiver arrays incorporating large numbers of coil elements. At magnetic field strengths of 7 tesla and higher where the Larmor frequencies of interest can exceed 300 MHz, the coil array design must also overcome the problem of the coil conductor length approaching the RF wavelength. In this study, a novel concentric arrangement of resonance elements built from capacitively-shortened half-wavelength transmission lines is presented. This approach was utilized to construct an array with whole-brain coverage using 16 transceiver elements and 16 receive-only elements, resulting in a coil with a total of 16 transmit and 32 receive channels. Magn Reson Med 63:1478-1485,2010. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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