Abstract #1530

Comparative design study of a 3T 1H RF breast coil: Quadrature vs. Solenoid Design

Sören Bieling^1,2, Mark E. Ladd^1,2,3, and Arthur W. Magill¹

¹Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, ²Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, ³Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

In this work a comparative design study for the development of a new proton (¹H) transmit/receive radio frequency (RF) coil for unilateral breast imaging at 3 Tesla (123MHz) is performed. The two most common RF breast coil designs, based on quadrature and solenoid coils, are compared against each other in terms of spatial homogeneity and first-order statistics (mean µ, standard deviation σ, spread σ/µ) of the circularly polarized RF excitation field (B₁⁺) as well as B₁⁺ scaled over the square root of the maximum 10g-averaged specific absorption rate (B₁⁺/√(SAR_peak)).

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