Abstract #1830
Novel Coil Design for a Simultaneous PET-MR System
Saikat Saha 1 and Kyle Reiser 2
1
GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States,
2
GE
Healthcare, WI, United States
In conventional whole body MR RF transmit coils, various
RF components such as diodes, capacitors, inductors,
cables etc. are placed throughout the coil for optimal
RF performance. If such components in a simultaneous
PET/MR system are placed in the FOV of the PET detector,
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 Tx/Rx coil with minimal use of
high density RF components. We present design and
performance for the resulting antenna as implemented in
our 3.0T simultaneous whole body PET/MR system.
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