Abstract #1124

Initial experiences with a fully-removable whole-body birdcage transmit coil and 16-element receive array for cardiac 31P-MRS at 7T

Ladislav Valkovic¹, Iulius Dragonu², Karsten Wicklow², Ulrich Joerg Fontius², Salam Almujayyaz³, Alex Batzakis³, Liam Young¹, Lucian AB Purvis¹, William T Clarke¹, Tobias Wichmann⁴, Titus Lanz⁴, Stefan Neubauer¹, Matthew D Robson¹, Dennis WJ Klomp^3,5, and Christopher T Rodgers¹

¹Oxford Centre for Clinical MR Research (OCMR), RDM Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, ³MR Coils BV, Zaltbommel, Netherlands, ⁴Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany, ⁵Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

This abstract describes our experiences implementing a volume transmit, local receive setup for cardiac ³¹P-MRS on a Siemens research 7T MRI scanner. Two strands of development work have been performed in tandem: (i) development of a fully removable whole-body transmit RF-coil and testing with the standard 8kW RFPA and SAR monitoring and combined with a 16ch receive array, and (ii) integration of a 35kW RF power amplifier, a new energy chain, and adapted SAR monitoring.

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