Abstract #0753

A 22-channel high impedance glove array for dynamic hand and wrist imaging at 3T

Bei Zhang^1,2, Justin Ho¹, Shota Hodono^1,3, Bili Wang¹, Ryan Brown^1,3, Riccardo Lattanzi^1,3, Markus Vester⁴, Robert Rehner⁴, and Martijn Cloos^1,3

¹Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, ²Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, ³The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, ⁴Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany

We constructed a 22-channel high impedance glove array for dynamic hand and wrist imaging. The glove array has a robust, flexible, comfortable, safe, and cleanable construction. Siemens Tim4G technology was used to connect coils to the scanner through a single bundled cable to streamline the workflow and permit hand postures that are uninhibited by bulky components. Compared to a rigid commercial 16-channel Hand/Wrist coil, our 22-channel glove array showed higher SNR on fingers and wrist and comparable SNR on the palm and top of the hand. Further analysis revealed low coupling between the coils that resulted in good acceleration performance.

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