Abstract #2152

13C RF coil combination for cardiac and abdominal human and pig studies

Steffen Ringgaard¹, Rolf F Schulte², James Tropp³, Carsten Kögler⁴, Titus Lanz⁴, Miguel A Navarro⁵, Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen^6,7, Fraser J Robb⁵, Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen¹, and Christoffer Laustsen¹

¹MR Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²GE Global Research, Munich, Germany, ³GE Healthcare, Fremont, CA, United States, ⁴Rapid Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany, ⁵GE Healthcare, Cleveland, OH, United States, ⁶GE Healthcare, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark

We have developed and validated a dedicated coil system for human and large animal hyperpolarised 13C measurements. The system consists of an outer two-element transmit coil and an inner 16-element receive coil. It was validated by hyperpolarised experiments in two healthy pigs using a multi-echo spiral CSI sequence. The 13C metabolic images showed good SNR and there was low noise correlation between the receive elements. Hence, the coil system is promising for future human hyperpolarised examinations.

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