Abstract #1608

Design of a 12-channel rhesus head coil array for functional MRI at 3 T

Zidong Wei¹, Qiaoyan Chen ², Hai Lu¹, Xiangming Hou¹, Qiang He¹, Xiaoliang Zhang^3,4, Xin Liu², Hairong Zheng², and Ye Li²

¹Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare, Shanghai, China, ²Lauterbur Imaging Research Center, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China, ³Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, ⁴UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA, United States

In this work, a 12-channel rhesus head coil array for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was designed, constructed and evaluated by imaging experiments in phantom studies and in-vivo studies. Compared to a commercially available 12-channel knee coil, the proposed 12-channel rhesus head coil provides improved performance not only in SNR and parallel imaging capability, but also in temporal SNR (tSNR) in resting-state fMRI studies.

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