Matthew Finnerty1, Xiaoyu Yang1,
Tsinghua Zheng1, Jeremiah Heilman1, Nicholas Castrilla1,
Joseph Herczak1, Hiroyuki Fujita1,2, Tamer S. Ibrahim3,4,
Fernando Boada3,4, Tiejun Zhao5, Franz Schmitt6,
Bernd Stoeckel5, Andreas Potthast6, Karsten Wicklow6,
Siegfried Trattnig7, Charles Mamisch7, Michael Recht8,
Daniel Sodickson8, Graham Wiggins8, Yudong Zhu8
1Quality Electrodynamics, LLC.,
Mayfield Village, OH, United States; 2Departments of Physics and
Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 3Department
of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 4Department
of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 5Siemens
Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA, United States; 6Siemens
Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 7Department of Radiology, Medical
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 8Department of Radiology,
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, United States
As
more advanced 7T MRI technology continues to emerge, the development of a
wider anatomical range of RF coils has become a greater priority. In an effort to take advantage of the
greater spatial resolution and higher SNR at 7T, a 12-rung birdcage
transmitter and 28-channel receive-only array coil has been developed. To overcome the challenges associated with
the shorter wavelength within the human body at 7T, several novel design
strategies have been utilized.