Abstract #4280

Marmoset coil arrays for functional imaging of awake monkeys at 9.4T and 3T

Azma Mareyam¹, Jitendra Sharma^1,2,3, Mitul Desai⁴, Christin Y Sander^1,2, Eric Frederick⁵, Benjamin B Bartelle⁴, Atsushi Takahashi^1,6, and Lawrence L Wald^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, A.A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, ³Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, ⁴Department of Bioengineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, ⁵Bruker Biospin, Billerica, MA, United States, ⁶McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States

High-field functional MRI of non-human primates provides elevated BOLD contrast in a well-established neuroscience model but requires an optimized coil design to boost the SNR, facilitate image acceleration while maintaining mechanical and electrical stability during the awake primate experiment. In this work we have constructed and tested 4-channel 9.4T and a 5-channel 3T receive-only array optimized for high-resolution whole-brain imaging of the anesthetized and awake marmosets.

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