Marcos Alonso Lopez
Terrones1, 2, Markus Dring, 13, Daniel
Gareis1, Peter M. Jakob3, 4
1NORAS
MRI products, Hchberg, Bavaria, Germany; 2Health Services of Durango,
Durango, Mexico; 3Experimental Physics 5, University of Wuerzburg,
Wuerzburg, Bavaria, Germany; 4Research Center Magnetic Resonance
Bavaria, Wuerzburg, Bavaria, Germany
In ocular imaging, the development of dedicated MRI coils is useful to monitoring the visual cortex and to determinate the damage in the visual pathway before a surgery. We developed an 8-channel flexible array for ocular fMRI. The coil is comprised of two pieces with four channels each. SNR-maps and in-vivo images were compared with a conventional head-coil at 1.5T. The 8-channel flexible array shows 200% SNR improvement at the surface and 25% at the center of the phantom. In-vivo images acquired with the 8-channel flexible array have also shown better image quality throughout the whole visual pathway.