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Abstract #1384

Uncompromised MRI of knee cartilage while incorporating sensitive sodium MRI

Sander Brinkhof1, Aidin Ali Haghnejad2, Keita Ito3,4, Karin Markenroth Bloch5, and Dennis Klomp1

1Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2WaveTronica, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 4Orthopaedics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5BioImaging Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

The goal of this work is to implement a dual tuned sodium-proton coil as transceiver for sodium and transmitter for hydrogen with a high-density proton receive array and compare the proton imaging performance with a state-of-the-art single tuned knee coil. A double-tuned knee coil was constructed as a shielded birdcage and 15 channel proton receiver coil embedded within the double-resonant birdcage. The double-tuned coil was implemented with comparable proton quality and acceleration possibilities compared to the single-tuned alternative while also being able to acquire high SNR sodium images.

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