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Abstract #0403

Signal-to-Noise Ratio Improvement for MR proton spectroscopy at 3T using a ultra High Dielectric Constant (uHDC) Material Sleeve

Sebastian Rupprecht 1 , Byeong-Yeul Lee 2 , Xiao-Hong Zhu 2 , Wei Chen 2 , and Qing X Yang 1,3

1 Center for NMR Research, Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Hershey, PA, United States, 2 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 3 Center for NMR Research, Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Hershey, PA, United States

Previously ultra-high dielectric constant (uHDC) materials have shown to greatly improve proton MR imaging at 3 T. In this study we are trying to explore the potential of utilizing such materials in a sleeve around the head to dramatically increase the signal-to-noise ratio by more than 100 %. At the same time we were able to cut the necessary transmit power for a standard single voxel spectroscopy in half while using the high dielectrics.

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