Adnan Trakic1, Bing Keong Li1, Ewald Weber1, Feng Liu1, Stephen Wilson1, Stuart Crozier1
1The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
This study introduces a new MRI approach using a rapidly rotating RF (RRF) transceive coil. RF coil rotation offers an additional degree of freedom for MR imaging in that it emulates a large conventional RF coil array. To test its feasibility, a small RRF transceive coil system was constructed and operated at about 1200 revolutions per minute in a 2 Tesla field. The MR images obtained were uniform and of good quality. The RRF approach may obviate the need for multiple channels and tedious RF coil decoupling.