Multi-Channel Coil Design & Applications: Body
Alexander Raaijmakers1
1UMC Utrecht / TU Eindhoven, Netherlands

Synopsis

Keywords: Physics & Engineering: Hardware, Physics & Engineering: High-Field MRI, Physics & Engineering: Physics

This lecture will focus at coil array development for body imaging at ultrahigh field strengths. Here, the standard clinical transmit coil (birdcage body coil) is not available. A wide range of various coil arrays for body imaging at ultrahigh fields have been developed for various applications. Next to presenting these developments and applications, this lecture will outline design criteria of transmit and receive arrays for body imaging in general. Various coil array concepts that were specifically designed for body imaging at ultrahigh field strengths will be explained in more detail. Finally, also X-nuclei coil array designs will be touched upon.

In addition to the synopsis, the below figure should give a good impression of the lecture.

Acknowledgements

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References

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Figures

Examples of coil array designs and applications for ultrahigh field MRI

Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 31 (2023)