Abstract #2679

Preliminary Metamaterial Design and Fabrication for MRI at 3T

Chao Luo¹, Xiaoqing Hu¹, Xiaoliang Zhang^2,3, Xin Liu¹, and Ye Li¹

¹Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, ²Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA, CA, United States, ³UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA, USA, CA, United States

In this paper, we designed and fabricated a kind of metamaterial with 9×9 cells, which bent on phantom and inserted to a birdcage volume coil to investigate the performance for 3T MRI. The results of simulations and phantom experiments agreed with each other very well indicate that the proposed metamaterial is able to increase the B1+ fields in some region closed to the surface of phantom. This improvement of B1+ fields will benefit to 3T MRI targeted clinical applications.

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