Bo Joseph Peng1, Yibao Wu1, Simon R. Cherry1, Jeffrey Walton2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; 2NMR Facility, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
We have investigated carbon fiber composites as a RF shielding material for simultaneous PET and MR imaging. In this abstract we outline the results of initial investigations of the shielding effectiveness of this material and compare it with more traditional copper shielding.