Abstract #2543
A 20 channel head/neck array for three dimensional arterial wall imaging at 3T
Xiaoqing Hu 1,2 , Lei Zhang 1 , Huabin Zhu 3 , Xiao Chen 1 , Yiu-cho Chung 1,2 , Xin Liu 1,2 , Hairong Zheng 1,2 , and Ye Li 1,2
1
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong,
China,
2
Shenzhen
Key Laboratory for MRI, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China,
3
Suzhou
Medcoil Healthcare Co.,Ltd, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
In this work, we propose an approach to construct the
20-channel head/neck coil with extended longitude
coverage and high SNR by combining a commercial
12-channel head array and adedicated 8-channel carotid
array in convenient fashion. The coupling effects are
compensated by accounting for the noise correlation
matrix in the reconstruction method. Both phantom and
in-vivo experiment results show that the proposed array
is capable to provide a large coverage from carotid to
brain vessels with high SNR and good parallel imaging
performance, which will benefit arterial disease
diagnosis.
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