Abstract #2628

A High-Pass Birdcage Coil for Small Animal Imaging at 600MHz/14.1T

Arthur W. Magill¹,², Hongxia Lei,¹³, Rolf Gruetter¹,²

¹Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Radiology, Univeristy of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ³Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

A high-pass quadrature birdcage coil was simulated, built and tested for use at 600MHz (14.1T). The resulting coil produces a highly homogeneous B1 field over the the field-of-view, despite the short RF wavelength.