Abstract #2144

A Cervical Spine Array Coil with Volume Transmitter at 7 Tesla

Tsinghua Zheng¹, Matthew Finnerty¹, Xiaoyu Yang¹, Matthew Diprimio¹, Luke Beery¹, Paul Taylor¹, Johanna Vannesjo², Stuart Clare², and Hiroyuki Fujita^1,3,4,5

¹Quality Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States, ²FMRIB Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, ⁴Radiology, University Hospital of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, United States, ⁵5School of Information and Electrical Engineering, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

A cervical spine array coil with a volume transmit coil for 7.0 Tesla was constructed and tested. The coil uses one partially shielded birdcage volume transmit coil for generating uniform excitation throughout the cervical spine region and an array of sixteen loop coils for receiving. Initial volunteer imaging demonstrated good coverage and uniformity along cervical spine.

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