Abstract #1361

Unshielded and Asymmetric RF Transmit Coil for Hyperpolarized 129Xe Human Lung Imaging at 3.0 T

Adam Farag¹, Jian Wang², Alexei Ouriadov¹, Grace Parraga¹,³, Giles Santyr,³⁴

¹Imaging Research Laboratory , Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare; ³Dept. of Medical Biophysics; ⁴Imaging Research Laboratory, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

The revolution of the MRI today made it more possible to achieve the impossible. New hardware designs are certainly part of this, and in particular unconventional RF coils.