Abstract #2510

Protocol for multi-site quantitative evaluation of 13C radio frequency coils

Galen D Reed¹, Rolf F Schulte², Jae Mo Park³, Craig R Malloy³, Rie B Hansen⁴, and Albert P Chen⁵

¹GE Healthcare, Dallas, TX, United States, ²GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany, ³UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, ⁴Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, ⁵GE Healthcare, Toronto, ON, Canada

We present a protocol for measurement of SNR profile of ¹³C RF coils for clinical imaging systems. This protocol makes use of standard, vendor-provided pulse sequences as well as the natural abundance ¹³CH₃ resonance of the dimethyl silicone (DMS) phantoms which are widely distributed. We also provide an open source code for processing and analysis.

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