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Abstract #4551

Self-contained Small Animal Imaging Insert for Clinical MRI Systems

Tobias Lobmeyer1, Thomas Hüfken1, Viktoria Haiß1, Alireza Abaei2, and Volker Rasche1
1Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany, 2Core Facility Small Animal Imaging (CF-SANI), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: New Devices, Preclinical

For measuring small objects or animals in a clinical MRI system specialised vendor-specific coils can be applied to overcome SNR limitations. Instead, we suggest using resonant inductive coupled vendor unspecific receive coils, for enhancing the SNR in a small local ROI, of e.g. the systems inbuilt body coil by a factor of up to 34. For simple usage, autotuning capabilities were integrated to automatically compensate for different loads, thus enabling imaging of small objects or animals without any modification to the work-flow, preparation and scanning process on a clinical MRI system.

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