Abstract #0422

Ledden P, van Gelderen P, Duyn J, Wang S, Mareyam A

The availability of increasing numbers of receivers on 7T MRI scanners leads to the question of how to optimally make use of these additional channels. For this work, we describe a 24 channel receive-only array using radially gapped columns of overlapping elements parallel to B0 for brain imaging at 7T. This element geometry provided dramatically improved sensitivity improvements over a quadrature channel volume coil and more modest yet significant sensitivity improvements eight channel radially gapped coil of similar size. Axial plane G factors were low and this coil geometry allows for SENSE acquisition in other planes