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Abstract #0625

DEDICATED RECEIVER ARRAY COIL FOR 1 H LUNG IMAGING WITH SYNCHRONOUS ACQUISITION OF HYPERPOLARIZED 3 He AND 129 Xe GAS

Madhwesha Rama Rao 1 , Fraser Robb 2 , and Jim M Wild 1

1 Academic Unit of Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 2 GEHC Coils, General Electric Company, Aurora, Ohio, United States

Synchronous acquisition of 1H and HP gases in the lungs provide complementary structure function information from the lung with inherent spatial temporal registration. To date 1H images have been acquired using the systems body coil, which has low SNR compared to dedicate receive coils. This study demonstrates the design and application of a dedicated 1H receiver array to improve the proton lung SNR in synchronous acquisition with HP gas 3He and 129Xe at 1.5T. Synchronous acquisition with two birdcage transmitter receiver arrays has also been demonstrated. Both represent novel developments in the field of multi nuclear MRI RF engineering

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