Abstract #1480

Multi-Coil Array for Combined Imaging and B0 Shimming in a Portable Head-Only Scanner

Sebastian Theilenberg¹, Yun Shang¹, Naoharu Kobayashi², Ben J. Parkinson³, and Christoph Juchem^1,4

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, ²Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, ³Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁴Department of Radiology, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States

To improve accessibility of MRI and to enable advanced studies on motor coordination, we are part of the U01EB025153 collaboration to develop a compact 1.5 T head-only scanner enabling free limb movement. The compact size of the magnet significantly increases B₀ inhomogeneity, necessitating the use of novel imaging concepts robust to B₀ inhomogeneities that in turn require advanced B₀ field modeling capabilities. Here, we introduce a 31-coil Multi-Coil (MC) design capable to generate linear and non-linear MR image encoding fields as well as complex B₀ shim fields with low space and power requirements.

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