Abstract #0107

Multi-Purpose Flexible Transceiver Array at 7T

Bing Wu¹, Chunsheng Wang¹, Roland Krug¹, Douglas Kelley², Yong Pang¹, Duan Xu¹, Sharmila Majumder^1,3, Sarah Nelson^1,3, Daniel Vigneron^1,3, Xiaoliang Zhang^1,3

¹Radiology&Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; ²GE Healthcare, San Francisco, CA, USA; ³UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Group Program in Bioengineering, SanFrancisco&Berkeley, CA, USA

A multi-purpose flexible transceiver array was designed for ultra-high field MRI using a mixing technique of primary and 2nd harmonic microstrips. Besides the coil geometry, the number of coil elements in the proposed design is also selectable for different applications. The feasibility of this multi-purpose flexible array has been demonstrated by 7T MR imaging for human wrist, knee, head and liver.