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Abstract #1591

Improving Long-distance Surface Imaging Performance with a Cryogenic Coil

Jiafu Wei1, Zhiguang Mo1, Enhua Xiao1, Chao Luo1, Jiaxu Li1, and Ye Li1,2
1Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China, 2Key Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance and Multimodality Imaging of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Non-Array RF Coils, Antennas & Waveguides, RF Arrays & Systems, signal-to-noise ratio, high-resolution, cryogenic, RF coils.

Motivation: The signal-to-noise ratio of high-field RF surface coils decays with distance, and we propose cryogenic coils to compensate for the SNR of MR Imaging.

Goal(s): The cryogenic coil in our work aims to significantly improve the SNR of the images at long distances while guaranteeing a large imaging FOV.

Approach: We design a large size RF coil and cool it down for rat imaging.

Results: The experimental results show that the cryogenic coil obtained a SNR of 1.8-fold higher than a room-temperature coil and 1.1-fold higher than that of a commercial multi-channel rat coil.

Impact: The designed coil can help to improve the quality of MR imaging in some scenarios where the object to be measured is far away from the RF receive coil.

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