Raju
Viswanathan1, Bradley Goldstein1, Kevan Anderson2,
Axel Krieger3
1Tursiop Technologies, LLC, Cleveland,
OH, United States; 2Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Sentinelle Medical Inc.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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emerging RF coil technology based on a new nanostructured material was
recently introduced. This material can be macroscopically configured in a
mechanically robust ribbon or string form comprised of carbon nanotubes. The material
can provide a combination of increased inductance and reduced resistance that
permits building MR receive coils with enhanced SNR. Here this is explicitly
demonstrated in a prototype prostate imaging nanocoil that was built to fit
into a commercial endorectal prostate imaging probe. It is shown that with a
single channel nanocoil, SNR profiles similar to those from a standard but
advanced dual-channel array can be generated.
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