Abstract #1525

A 64-Channel Phased-Array Head Neck Coil for Neurovascular/fMRI at 3T

Haoqin Zhu¹, Xiaoyu Yang¹, Michael Wyban¹, Yiping Guan², Yoshinori Hamamura², Yuji Takano³, and Kazuya Okamoto³

¹Quality Electrodynamics, LLC (QED), Mayfield Village, OH, United States, ²Canon Medical Research USA, Inc., Mayfield Village, OH, United States, ³Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan

Close-fitting the coil elements along the head and neck is a typical design of higher density phased-array head neck coils in order to provide higher SNR and acceleration. But this limits patient comfort and excludes larger patients. In this work we present a 64-channel head neck coil which can image large patients for neurovascular/fMRI at 3T. The coil test results show superior SNR in imaging compared to both a clinical 32-channel head array coil and 16-channel head neck array coil respectively.

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