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Abstract #4388

A Scalable Constellation Coil Design for 3T Body Imaging

Xing Yang1, CemMurat Deniz2, Ye Li2, Ryan Brown2, Yudong Zhu2

1Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology,, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States; 2Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States


Based on the field equivalence principles of electrodynamics, a previous study1 introduced a unifying solution to RF coil, suggesting that a single surface structure and a surface current driving mechanism may enable not only emulations of but higher performance than any externally applied RF coil. A full-wave EM simulation included therein further demonstrated a particular 128-port constellation coil structures potential as a unifying solution. In an effort to leverage these results and possibly improve todays clinical MR systems that have varying numbers of parallel RF channels, the present study explored a constellation coil design that was adapted to suit a small as well as a large number of channels. MR imaging experiments on a clinical 3T scanner were conducted to quantify SNR behavior of the same coil as the number of implemented ports increases. Commercial phased array coils were used as comparison references.