Abstract #1564

Effects of Parallel Imaging Acceleration on SNR Improvement with a High-Permittivity Helmet Shaped Former at Different Field Strengths

Giuseppe Carluccio^1,2, Bei Zhang^1,2, Riccardo Lattanzi^1,2, Gregor Adriany³, Kamil Ugurbil³, and Christopher Michael Collins^1,2

¹Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York, NY, United States, ²Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Use of high-permittivity materials has recently shown very promising results in terms of reduction of B1 inhomogeneities and increase of SNR. In particular, significant SNR increases have been predicted for a high-permittivity helmet former within a close fitting head array. With this solution, for a 7T MRI system, an average SNR increase approaching 50% was obtained in the brain with SNR peak improvements of more than 200%. Until now, however, the effects of the high-permittivity helmet on g-factor and parallel imaging have not been examined. In this work, for three different acceleration rates we evaluate the impact of gfactor when a high-permittivity helmet shaped former is used in two different head arrays at two different field strengths.

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