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Abstract #4646

Design and Construction of an 8-channel transceiver coil array for Rat imaging at 9.4T

Feng Du1,2, Nan Li1,2, Xing Yang1,2, Baogui Zhang3, Xiaoliang Zhang4, Xin Liu1,2, Hairong Zheng1,2, and Ye Li1,2
1Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China, 2Key Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance and Multimodality Imaging of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, China, 3Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4Department of Biomedical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States

Synopsis

The development of RF coils for the ultrahigh-field(UHF) MRI system is greatly significant for biomedical research as it determines imaging performance. In this work,an 8-channel transceiver array was designed and constructed for UHF MRI at 9.4 T to take full advantage of the benefits provided by higher field strengths. The phantom and in vivo studies were performed on preclinical 9.4 T MRI system to verify the proposed tansceiver performance. The results proved the ability of the proposed 8-channel transceiver array to obtain high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and high-spatial resolution MR images at 9.4T and indicated the potentiality for UHF MRIapplications.

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