Abstract #4806
A flexible transceiver array of monolithic transmission line resonators
Roberta Kriegl 1,2 , Jean-Christophe Ginefri 1 , Marie Poirier-Quinot 1 , Luc Darrasse 1 , Ewald Moser 2,3 , and Elmar Laistler 2,3
1
Laboratoire d'Imagerie par Rsonance
Magntique Mdicale et Multi-Modalits (IR4M),
Universit Paris Sud, Orsay, Essonne, France,
2
Center
for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical
University of Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Austria,
3
MR
Center of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna,
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
A novel transceiver array composed of monolithic
transmission line resonators, fabricated on flexible
substrate, for MRI at 7 T is presented. Individual array
elements are mutually decoupled via overlapping annexes;
inductive matching and fine-tuning using pick-up loops
in over-coupled mode was implemented. The decoupling and
parallel imaging performance of the array was assessed
in bench and MRI experiments in terms of transmission
S-parameters, noise correlation values and GRAPPA
g-factors, comparing planar and bent array
configuration. It is shown that the developed array may
be form-fitted to non-planar samples without degrading
its performance.
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