Abstract #3816

A 7T Capless Transceive Breast Coil

Bing Keong Li¹, Hua Wang¹, Ewald Weber¹, Yu Li¹, Adnan Trakic¹, Daniel James Lee², Sedig Farhat², Paul Glover², Richard Bowtell², Stuart Crozier¹

¹School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; ²School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

A new method for designing a ultra high field bilateral transceive breast coil is presented. The design method does not require any discrete capacitors (hence the name Capless Transceive Breast Coil) and can be driven by a single RF port for simultaneous bilateral breast imaging. A prototype breast coil using this design method was constructed and tested in a 7T Philips whole-body MRI system. Phantom images acquired using the prototype show high homogeneity and excellent RF penetration.