Abstract #2622

Shared-Conductor Versus Overlapped-Loop Quadrature Surface Coils: Which Performs Better in Human Brain at 7T?

Arthur W. Magill¹,², Martin Meyerspeer¹,³, Rolf Gruetter¹,⁴

¹Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Department of Radiology, Univeristy of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ³ZMPBMT, Medizinische Universitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria; ⁴Department of Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

The performance of two quadrature surface coil designs is compared at 7 Tesla in the human head. The first design is a traditional overlapped pair of loops; the second is a pair of loops with a common the central conductor.