Abstract #1399
Whole Body RF Coil Design for a Simultaneous PET-MR System
Saikat Saha 1
1
GE Healthcare, GE, Waukesha, WI, United
States
In conventional whole body RF transmit coils, various RF
components such as diodes, capacitors, inductors, cables
etc. are placed throughout the coil for optimal MR
performance. If such components are placed in the FOV of
the PET detector in a simultaneous PET/MR system, they
will scatter some of the PET signals (511keV
annihilation photons), affecting image quality. To
address this problem we have created a zero PET
attenuation whole body transmit/receive coil with
minimal use of high density RF components. We present
design and performance for the resulting body coil as
implemented in our 3.0T simultaneous PET/MR system.
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