Jarek Wosik1,2, Andrzej Jesmanowicz3,
Lian Xue4, Leiming Xie1, Flora Suk-Yin Ip1
1Electrical & Computer
Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States; 2Texas
Center for Superconductivity, Houston, TX, United States; 3Biophysics,
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States; 4Time
Medical, Metuchen, NJ, United States
In this work we have developed a simple method of estimation of a potential SNR gain, which can be obtained for a given coil and body configuration. Four and six laboratory bench Qs measurements had to be carried out to allow for SNR gain calculations of 77 K Cu and Cu/HTS coils, respectively. It was tested on a 3 T whole-body GE scanner using planar counter-rotating-currents (CRC) and twin-horseshoe (HS) coils (receive only) integrated with a G-10 liquid nitrogen cryostat. Cryogenic performance comparison of the CRC and HS coils were carried out using a 3.0 T GE whole-body scanner.