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Abstract #1228

B1 uniformity improvement of a birdcage coil with a chain mail configuration

Rodrigo Ruiz1, Jelena Lazovic2, Alfredo Odon Rodriguez3, and Sergio Solis-Najera1
1Departamento de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Department of Physical Intelligence, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico

Synopsis

Keywords: RF Arrays & Systems, RF Arrays & Systems, Birdcage coil

Motivation: The main goal is to enhance the performance of an RF coil used in preclinical MRI imaging, specifically at a field strength of 7 T.

Goal(s): The researchers proposed a modification to a standard birdcage (BC) coil. This modification involves adding a "chain mail layout" to the rungs of the coil.

Approach: The idea for the chain mail layout was inspired by previous low pass wiring schemes used in chain mail coils, as reported by Mansfield. Chain mail refers to a type of flexible armor composed of interlinked metal rings.

Results: Phantom images were acquired and used to compute uniformity profiles.

Impact: These results obtained with the chain mail BC coil contributes to our overarching goal of achieving improved MRI coil performance for preclinical applications at 7 T.

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