Pankit Parikh1, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu1,2,
Kristine A. Blackham1, Michael D. Coffey1, Daniel P.
Hsu1, John A. Jesberger2, Kecheng Liu3, Mark
A. Griswold1,4, Jeffrey L. Sunshine1,2
1Radiology, University Hospitals of
Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 2Case
Center for Imaging Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,
United States; 3Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, PA, United States; 4Biomedical
Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
Phased-array
coils with increasing number of array elements have been developed and
employed for clinical MR imaging. A phased-array head coil with 32 array
elements provides quantitatively better brain images as compared to
commercially available head coil with lower number of array elements. In this
study, we investigate if application of this coil would improve the anatomic
and pathologic analysis from the resultant brain images by qualitatively
comparing MR images obtained using this coil with those obtained using a
commercially available phased-array head coil with 12 array elements.
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