Niranjan Venugopal1,2, Axel Krieger3,
Herve Momo Jeufnack4, Ken Bradshaw4, Boyd McCurdy5,
1Physics and Astronomy, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 2Medical Physics, CancerCare
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 3Sentinelle Medical, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada; 4Sentinelle Medical Inc.; 5Medical
Physic, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; 6National
Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
We
present a comparison of a newly designed dual-channel, rigid endorectal coil
for both imaging and spectroscopic imaging of the prostate with a standard, single-channel, inflatable
endorectal coil, demonstrating a SNR improvement of up to ~500% in the
near-coil area (where the prostate peripheral zone is located), and up to
~150% at depth (where the prostate
central zone is located). This huge SNR improvement allows for greatly
improved MR/MRSI imaging of the
prostate.
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