Qing X. Yang1,2,
Zachary George Herse1, Mathew Ketterman3, Jianli Wang1,
Chris Sica1, Christopher Collins1,2, Jinhua Wang4,
Michael Lanagan3
1Radiology, the
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA; 2Bioengineering,
the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA; 3Materials
Research Institute, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
USA; 4Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine
Experimental results demonstrated that placement of a high dielectric constant (HDC) pad within a cervical spine coil improved the image SNR by 40-67% throughout the cervical spine, while RF power was reduced by 60%. Thus, HDC pads can be broadly used for improving image quality and safety of MRI in a variety of clinical applications at 3T