Abstract #2133

A 7-Tesla Transmit with 32-Channel Receive-Only Array Head Coil for fMRI

Matthew Finnerty¹, Derick Petrey¹, Paul Taylor¹, Luke Beery¹, Tsinghua Zheng¹, Xiaoyu Yang¹, Hiroyuki Fujita^1,2,3,4, Se-Hong Oh⁵, Ken Sakaie⁵, and Mark Lowe⁵

¹Quality Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States, ²Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ³Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, United States, ⁴School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁵Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States

While fMRI at 7-Tesla can provide clinically relevant increases in functional sensitivity over 3-Tesla, it also typically uses visual and audio stimulation devices that require additional space accommodations inside the RF coil. In order to accommodate a wider range of stimulus devices than possible with high filling factor designs, a head array coil utilizing a volume transmitter and 32 receive elements for 7-Tesla was constructed inside a versatile mechanical package to support fMRI and other applications.

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