Abstract #0137

An RF Coil for a Head-Only MR System

J. Thomas Vaughan¹, Brandon Tramm², Scott Schillak², Michael Garwood³, Michael Mullen⁴, Lance DelaBarre⁴, Djaudat Idiyatullin⁴, and Matt Waks⁴

¹Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, ²Virtumed, LLC, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ³University of Minnesota, Minneaoplis, MN, United States, ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

A new RF coil and frontend for a head-only, 1.5T fMRI system was designed, built and demonstrated. This coil features the ability for single and multichannel transceiver operation for transmit-receive switched and simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) operation. It includes a window and an integrated shield. First applications will be for voluntary motor control studies in humans.

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