Abstract #0160

A 64-Channel Array Coil for 3T Head/Neck/C-spine Imaging

Boris Keil¹, Stephan Biber², Robert Rehner², Veneta Tountcheva¹, Kathrin Wohlfarth², Philipp Hoecht³, Michael Hamm³, Heiko Meyer², Hubertus Fischer², Lawrence L. Wald^1,4

¹A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; ²Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; ³Siemens Healthcare, Charlestown, MA, USA; ⁴Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Highly parallel array coils have been applied to the brain to improve sensitivity of accelerated and non-accelerated imaging, but also offer the possibility to extend the coverage to the neck and C-spine. We have developed a new head-neck-Cspine coil with 60 elements (with 4 additional elements used from the spine array) to improve the sensitivity of integrated head, neck and C-spine examinations. We validate the array with SNR and g-factor maps and accelerated imaging up to R=9