Abstract #4242

Exploration of the Surgical Placement of the Local Pituitary Coil for Microadenomas

Jiahao Lin^1,2, Siyuan Liu², Rock Hadley³, Marvin Bergsneider⁴, Giyarpuram N Prashant⁴, Sophie Peeters⁴, Robert Candler^2,5, and Kyunghyun Sung¹

¹Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, LOS ANGELES, CA, United States, ²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, LOS ANGELES, CA, United States, ³Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, ⁴Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, LOS ANGELES, CA, United States, ⁵California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We construct an agar phantom to examine the SNR variation as the coil plane rotates from 0° to 90°, respect to B0. Our local pituitary coil has improved SNR with a factor, ranged from 3.3 to 4.2, compared to the commercial Siemens head coil as long as the surgical positioning of the coil to be within 0° and 70° with respect to the B0 field.

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