Abstract #2508

An Optimal Design for 32 Channel Head-Neck Coil

Jo Lee¹, Xiaoqing Hu¹, Lei Zhang¹, Xiaoliang Zhang^2,3, Xin Liu¹, and Ye Li¹

¹Lauterbur Imaging Research Center, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen City, People's Republic of China, ²Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, CA, United States, ³UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA, United States

In this study, we build an optimized 32 channel head-neck coil array to improve the weak SNR of area behind cervical spine from the previous designed neck-coil array. Two of the original eight neck coils is place to the area near scruff with a new structure. Comparing the optimized 32-channel head neck coil with the previous: imaging test has improved 63% higher than the previous coil array. For g-factor measurement, optimized neck coil array is the same as the previous one. The results indicate that the optimized coil array is better for neck imaging.

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