Jung-Hwan Kim1, Kyung-Nam Kim2,
Chan Hong Moon1, Suk-Min Hong2, Bum-Woo Park1,
Haekyun Joshua Park2, Kyongtae Ty Bae1
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA, United States; 2Gachon University of Medicine and Science,
Incheon, Korea, Republic of
We
have developed a dual-tuned 1H and 23Na coil at 3T by utilizing the Unicoil
concept and coil geometry to improve the SNR and RF penetration depth. The
coil allowed us to acquire 1H and 23Na images of the spine and kidney with
excellent image quality. Future
studies include development and generalization of Unicoil concept for imaging
other body parts and comparative evaluation of the performance of Unicoil with
other coil designs.