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Abstract #5049

High-resolution whole-brain diffusion MRI at 7 Tesla using 63-channel signal reception

Xiaodong Ma1, Andrea Grant1, Matt Waks1, Edward Auerbach1, Gregor Adriany1, Kamil Ugurbil1, and Xiaoping Wu1
1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Radiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Synopsis

There has been an increasing interest to acquire high-resolution diffusion MRI at ultrahigh field (≥7 Tesla) due to the increased SNR and improved parallel imaging performance. To fully capitalize on the benefit of ultrahigh field, it is desirable to image with many receiver coils. In this study, we acquired slice-accelerated whole-brain 1.05-mm isotropic diffusion images on an FDA-approved 7 Tesla scanner (Siemens Terra) using a homemade 63-channel head RF array with various slice and in-plane accelerations. We found that the use of 63 channels can achieve higher acceleration factors (up to 9-fold acceleration in total) while maintaining the image quality.

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