Abstract #0276

Anatomic & Functional Cardiac MR at 7T: A Comparison of 4, 8 & 16-Element Transceive RF Coil Designs

Lukas Winter¹, Christof Thalhammer¹, Matthias Dieringer^1,2, Celal zerdem¹, Jan Rieger¹, Fabian Hezel¹, Wolfgang Renz³, Thoralf Niendorf^1,2

¹Berlin Ultrahigh-Field Facility, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; ²Experimental & Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charit Campus Buch, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany; ³Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany

Multichannel transmit and receive coil arrays give promising results to overcome the challenges towards clinical cardiac imaging at ultrahigh field strengths. The comparison of 4-, 8- and 16-channel cardiac coils shows a higher SNR, CNR as well as image homogeneity while moving towards a higher number of TX/RX elements. Clinically relevant short axis and four chamber view cardiac 2D CINE FLASH, tag band prepared 2D CINE FLASH and 2D CINE SSFP images were acquired and compared.