Yong Pang1, Bing Wu1, Daniel
Vigneron1,2, Xiaoliang Zhang1,2
1Radiology & Biomedical
Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United
States; 2UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering,
San Francisco & Berkeley, CA, United States
The rapid development of parallel imaging requires high performance RF coil arrays with excellent decoupling performance. In this study, parallel imaging performance for a new 8-channel volume transceiver array with tilted microstrip elements was investigated in terms of reconstructed image quality, noise correlation matrix and g-factor. In vivo human knee images were obtained using a 7T whole body MR scanner. Commonly used parallel imaging methods SENSE and GRAPPA were utilized to perform accelerated image reconstructions. The results demonstrate excellent parallel imaging performance for our proposed tilted microstrip array.