Abstract #2964

Dual-Frequency Coil Design Using Common Mode and Differential Mode (CMDM) Technique for 1H/13C MRSI at 7T

Zhentian Xie¹, Daniel Vigneron^1,2, Xiaoliang Zhang^1,2

¹Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; ²UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco/Berkeley, CA, USA

A new dual-tuned RF coil technique based on common-mode and differential mode (CMDM) was proposed for high field multi-nuclear MR applications. The proposed CMDM coils combined with magnetic wall decoupling, a broadband decoupling technique, may be advantageous in designing high field double-tuned coil arrays for parallel imaging applications.