Abstract #2791

RF Coil Configuration Study for 7T High Resolution Na23 and H1 Animal MRI

Seunghoon Ha¹, Se-Ho Lee², Mark Jason Hamamura¹, Keum-Shik Hong², Orhan Nalcioglu¹,²

¹Tu & Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States; ²Department of Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

The high resolution multinuclear imaging in animal study has been highly demanded to research cancer therapies, neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic disorders. Although dual-tuned RF coil provide anatomical and functional MRI without subjects repositioning issued from the use of two separate tuned RF coils, it causes SNR loss due to adding trap circuit or PIN diode. Against this reserved problems, we suggest the exchangeable single tuned RF coil configuration on the fixed couch frame without subjects repositioning in the study. We prepare a dual tuned RF coil and two single tuned RF coils as well as evaluate SNR of separate coils with scanned animal MR images.