Abstract #2780

Dedicated 8-Channel Transceive Array for Rat Head MRI at 9.4T

Yu Li¹, Ewald Weber¹, Ivan Hughes¹, Stuart Crozier, Peter Ullmann², Johannes Schneider², Sven Junge²

¹School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Select, Australia; ²Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH Ettlingen Germany, Ettlingen, Germany

To benefit from the advantages of Parallel Excitation (PEX)/Transmit SENSE and Spatially Selective Excitation (SSE) imaging, a dedicated 9.4T phased-array for rat head MRI was developed. An 8-channel transceive array coil was modelled /simulated and a prototype was constructed and tested in a Bruker 9.4T Biospec MRI system. Preliminary experimental results presented herein demonstrate the potential of the work.