Abstract #0714

Sodium MRI on Human Brain at 7T with 15-Channel Array Coil

Yongxian Qian¹, Tiejun Zhao², Graham C. Wiggins³, Lawrence L. Wald⁴, Hai Zheng⁵, Jonathan Weimer⁵, Fernando E. Boada¹,⁵

¹Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; ²R&D, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; ³Radiology, New York University, New York, United States; ⁴Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; ⁵Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Phased array coils have been shown significantly improving SNR in proton imaging over volume coils. This study investigates SNR advantage of a 15-channel array head coil (birdcage volume coil for transmit/receive and 15-channel array insert for receive-only) in sodium imaging at 7T.