Abstract #0390

8-Channel Eigenmode Tx-Array at 3T for Tx-SENSE

Scott B. King¹, Jarod Matwiy¹, Mike J. Smith¹, Ulrich Fontius², Franz Schmitt², Boguslaw Tomanek³

¹National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany; ³National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Biodiagnostics (West), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tx-array elements that have B1 field distributions that are completely orthogonal may allow the complimentary effect of Rx-array data compression but on the transmit side for Tx-SENSE applications, minimizing the number of transmit channels required to achieve a certain Tx-SENSE reduction factor. Here we report on an eigenmode Tx-array solution that generates 8-channel orthogonal B1 fields used in conjunction with an 8-channel transmitter MRI system for Tx-SENSE MRI.