Abstract #0181

A Patient-Friendly 16ch Tx / 64ch Rx Array for Combined Head and Neck Imaging at 7 Tesla

Markus W. May¹, Sam-Luca J.D. Hansen¹, Nicolas Kutscha¹, Gurinder Kaur Multani¹, Mirsad Mahmutovic¹, Matthäus Poniatowski¹, Rene Gumbrecht², Ralph Kimmlingen², Markus Adriany², Yulin Chang³, Bastien Guerin⁴, Christina Triantafyllou², Lawrence L. Wald⁴, and Boris Keil¹

¹Institute of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection (IMPS), TH Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany, ²Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, ³Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA, United States, ⁴A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Dept of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

A 16chTx / 64chRx head-neck array coil was designed, constructed, and validated at 7T ultra-high field (UHF) MRI. The clinical benefits of UHF neuroimaging were increased by extending coil coverage from the brain region to include the cervical spine. To increase patient compliance, the commonly employed separated transmit and receive coil array functionalities at UFH were combined into one anatomically shaped close-fitting housing which is fully splitable for patient access.

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