Boris Keil1, Christin Y. Sander1,2,
Veneta Tountcheva1, Jennifer A. McNab1, Kyoko Fujimoto1,
Christina Triantafyllou1,3, Lawrence L. Wald4,5
1A. A. Martinos Center for
Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School,
Charlestown, MA, United States; 2Department of Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States; 3McGovern
Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States; 4A.
A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States; 5Harvard-MIT
Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
As the number of elements used in array coils increases, the complexity of the construction procedure also increases and a careful optimized workflow is required. The aim of this educational e-poster is to provide a multi-media, step-by-step procedure for constructing and bench testing a 32-channel phased-array coil. We describe an optimized protocol for constructing, tuning and decoupling the array coil showing video recording and network analyzer trace captures at each step. The methodology is demonstrated with the construction of a 32-channel pediatric brain array coil for 3T.