Iga Muradyan1, Feng Zhou2, Pooja
Soni2, Mikayel Dabaghyan1, Samuel Patz1,
1Department of Radiology, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; 2University of
Massachusetts, Lowell; 3Mirtech, Inc, Brockton, MA, United States
Here
we report on a design and initial tests of a single-channel multi-coil array.
As the name of the array suggests, this system will provide an efficient and simple
way of using multiple coils on a single channel scanner. This has a
significant cost advantage over multi-transmit channels. SCMC arrays would be
beneficial to use when there is perfusion and/or T1 . One such case
identified is white and gray matter measurements with hyperpolarized xenon.