Tsinghua Zheng1, Xiaoyu Yang1,
Matthew Finnerty1, Jeremiah Heilman1, Joseph Herczak1,
Hiroyuki Fujita1,2, Graham Wiggins3, Ryan Brown3,
Bernd Stoeckel4
1Quality Electrodynamics,
LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; 2Physics, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 3Radiology, NYU
Langone Medical Center, New York, United States; 4Siemens Medical
Solutions USA, Inc, Malvern, PA, United States
We have constructed a7T transmit-and-16-channel receive array breast coil for Siemens Magnetom 7T scanner. Comparison of in vivo volunteer images with a commercially available 4 channel breast array coil at 3T showed significant advantage of the 7T breast array coil with its ultra high spatial resolution, which is critical to the early breast cancer detection.