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Abstract #1897

One Coil to Light Them All: Broadband Body Coil for Multi-Frequency Imaging using a Coaxial Waveguide

Stefan Alt1, Marco Mller1, Armin Michael Nagel1, Florian Meise1, Reiner Umathum1, Michael Bock1

1Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany


The native wave propagation mode of a coaxial waveguide (TEM) has no cut-off frequency, which offers the opportunity of broadband operation for mulit-nuclei studies. We acquired proton (1H) and sodium (23Na) images at four different Larmor frequencies from 63 to 297MHz using the same coaxial waveguide setup for both spin excitation and signal reception.