Abstract #1163

High resolution anatomical imaging of the human occipital lobe with a large ex-vivo 9.4T RF coil

Shubharthi Sengupta¹, Ron Hellenbrand², René Finger², Chris Wiggins³, and Alard Roebroeck¹

¹Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Lab Engineering & Instrumentation Department, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, ³Scannexus, Maastricht, Netherlands

Small-bore animal scanners or spectroscopy systems have often been used for the investigation of small post-mortem human brain samples. These studies use the high field strengths and strong gradients, but are inherently limited to very small sample sizes. In this abstract, we discuss the acquisition of very high resolution anatomical images (100μm isotropic) of a full occipital sample as large as 80x80x80 mm³, using a customised RF receive coil-array in a large-bore 9.4 T human scanner.

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