Abstract #4309

Towards high resolution fMRI at 3T with a flexible composite ultra-high dielectric constant (uHDC) material pad

Sebastian Rupprecht¹, Christopher T Sica², Jianli Wang², Gary Yang², Avery Wang², Michael T Lanagan³, and Qing X Yang²

¹Radiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States, ²Radiology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States, ³Department of Engineering Sciences and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States

We developed a novel flexible pad of uHDC material and characterized the RF fields in the visual cortex at 3T in a clinical 20- and 64-channel head coil with and without this pad. This pad was then utilized in an attempted to visualize optical dominance columns via high resolution fMRI images of the visual cortex in the 20-CH head coil and compared the results of with the results of an unenhanced 64-CH head coil.

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