Constellation Coil for Multi-Nuclear Imaging

Xing Yang¹, Ryan Brown¹, Cem Murat Deniz¹, Bei Zhang¹, Wonje Lee¹, Leeor Alon¹, Daniel Sodickson¹, Yudong Zhu¹

MR imaging of nuclei other than proton has been used to investigate metabolism in humans and animals. Additional imaging modalities such as sodium (23Na) MR have the potential to increase the sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection. Currently,dual-tuned coils are required for enhanced multi-nuclear imaging,which are very complicated, and a lot of de-tuned and de-coupled circuits will disturb the performance. The present study demonstrated the feasibility of using a constellation knee coil as transmit and receive coil for 7T multi-nuclear imaging(1H and 23Na) without any de-tuned or de-coupled circuits.