Abstract #3178
An SNR Comparison Between a Sodium Phased Array Coil and a Single Channel Coil
Amin Nazaran 1 , Joshua D Kaggie 2,3 , Meredith Taylor 1 , Daniel J Park 1 , Grayson Tarbox 1 , Rexford D Newbould 4 , Neal Bangerter 1 , and Glen Morrell 3
1
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham
Young University, Provo, Utah, United States,
2
Physics,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States,
3
Utah
Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States,
4
Imanova
Centre for Imaging Sciences, London, United Kingdom
In this abstract, we compared a new phased array sodium
breast coil with a single channel sodium coil. The new
phased array coil consists of 7 sodium loops that are
overlapped to minimize coupling to adjacent sodium
loops. The coil used for comparison has a single
transmit/receive 1 H loop and a single transmit/receive
23Na loop. The benefits of our new coil include larger
volume coverage, and higher SNR (2-3x) than the single
channel coil near the surface loops.
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