Gregor Adriany1,
Scott Schillak2, Matt Waks2, Brandon Tramm2,
Alard Roebroeck3, Elia Formisano3, Federico DeMartino3,
Essa S. Yacoub1, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota
Vaughan1, 2
1Center
for MR Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 2Life
Services LLC, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 3Maastricht
University, Maastricht, Netherlands
A dedicated 7 Tesla coil array for bilateral high-resolution fMRI of the temporal lobe is presented. 4 transceiver and 12 receiver-only loop coils were realized within a slim FDM molded housing. Excellent decoupling between the transceiver and receiver arrays was achieved allowing for on coil preamplifiers.