Abstract #1780
Design Optimization and Evaluation of a 64-Channel Cardiac Array Coil at 3T
Robin Etzel 1,2 , Xueming Cao 1,3 , Choukri Mekkaoui 1 , David E. Sosnovik 1 , Timothy G. Reese 1 , Mark Schuppert 4 , Laura M. Schreiber 4,5 , Martin Fiebich 2 , Lawrence L. Wald 1 , and Boris Keil 1
1
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States,
2
Mittelhessen
University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Medical
Physics and Radiation Protection, Giessen, Germany,
3
Medical
Physics, Department of Radiology, University Medical
Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany,
4
Department
of Radiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical
Center, Section of Medical Physics, Mainz, Germany,
5
Comprehensive
Heart Failure Center, Department of Cellular and
Molecular Imaging, Wuerzburg, Germany
In cardiac imaging, parallel acquisition has impacted
clinical applications to the point where nearly every
cardiac examination is performed with an array
comprising multiple smaller surface coil elements. In
this study we re-design, construct, and evaluate a
64-channel cardiac array coil and compare it to a 34-ch
commercially available coil array. We validated the
arrays with SNR and g-factor maps and accelerated DWI in
vivo imaging.
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