Shakil Ahmed Awan1, John McGinley2,
Robert Dickinson, Ian Young3
1Bioengineering, Imperial College
London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom; 2Mechanical
Engineering, Imperial College London; 3Electrical & Electronic
Engineering, Imperial College London
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technique has been developed, based on a planar B0-coil, to reduce artefacts
in MRI caused by respiratory motion in patients. This should enable
sub-millimetre resolution images to be detected using a MEMS microcoil. The
microcoil, subject of a separate publication, was developed for catheter
mounting and deployed in an endoscope for MR imaging of cholangiocarcinomas.
The B0-coil has been designed to generate 1 mT, parallel to the main field of
MRI scanner, with 80 Apk and to be homogenous to within 1% in a 150 mm DSV.
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