Jan Rieger1, Christof Thalhammer1,
Wolfgang Renz1,2, Tobias Frauenrath1, Lukas Winter1,
Andreas Goemmel3, Thoralf Niendorf1,4
1Berlin Ultrahigh Field
Facility, Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; 2Siemens
Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 3Chair of Structural
Statistics & Dynamics, RWTH, Aachen, Germany; 4Experimental
& Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charit Campus Buch,
Humboldt-University,, Berlin, Germany
MRI of larynx is a clinically relevant topic for assessment of tumor progression and evaluation of processes in human phonation. Dedicated 5 channel transmit/receive coil was proposed, simulated and designed to address the challenges of laryngeal MRI at 7 T. The coil was tested on volunteers and found out to exhibit an SNR advantage that allowed acquisition of images with sub-millimetre spatial resolution ( 0.25x0.25x0.2 mm3). We anticipate using this setup in further studies to gather reference data to be used in a finite-element model of phonation functions as well as in clinical research to study laryngeal tumors.