Abstract #0121
An 8 Channel Transmit Coil for Transmit Sense at 3T
Wald L, Wiggins G, Setsompop K, Adalsteinsson E, Potthast A, Alagappan V
A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
An 8 channel 3T transmit coil used for parallel excitation is presented to correct the B1 inhomogeneity at high field strengths, using spatially tailored RF pulses. The coil was tested in a prototype 8 transmit channel 3T Tim Trio system and validated using spatially tailored RF excitation pulses.
