Abstract #2735

A 3T Transmit and 16 Channel Receive Array Coil for Hand/Wrist Imaging

Shinya Handa¹, Matthew Finnerty¹, Craig I. Lawrie¹, Tsinghua Zheng¹, Xiaoyu Yang¹, Joseph Herczak¹, Hiroyuki Fujita¹,², John A. Carrino³, Filippo Del Grande³, Guarav K. Thawait³, Sahar J. Farahani³

¹Quality Electrodynamics, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; ²Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; ³Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

A transmit and 16 channel receive array coil for hand/wrist imaging at 3.0 Tesla was constructed and tested. The coil consists of an elliptical 8 rung birdcage coil for transmitting and an array of 16 independent loops for receiving. Initial phantom and volunteer imaging results demonstrated that the coil had excellent image quality, coverage of FOV, and required significantly less transmit power than an existing receive only coil.