Xiaoyu Yang1,
Shinya Handa1, Tsinghua Zheng1, Craig I. Lawrie1,
Matthew Finnerty1, Joseph Herczak1, Hiroyuki Fujita1,
2, Wolfgang Bogner3, 4, Olgica Zaric3,
Stefan Zbn3, Siegfried Trattnig3
1Quality
Electrodynamics, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; 2Physics,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 3Department
of Radiology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 4Department
of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, ma, United States
A Dual-Tune Sodium/Proton Tx/Rx 14-channel Sodium and 2-channel Proton Array Breast Coil at 7T was constructed and tested. The coil was built using nested approach without using lossy traps or PIN diodes. The coil has a three-layer structure. Initial volunteer imaging results demonstrated that the coil had promising image quality on both sodium and proton.