Abstract #1574

Robust decoupling of a 7 Tesla 8-channel loop array for head and cervical spinal cord imaging

Bei Zhang¹, Abbas Zaki², Daniel Lowrance², Ivan Dimitrov^1,3, Binu Thomas¹, Andreas Pfrommer⁴, and Anke Henning^1,4

¹Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, ²Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, ³Philips Healthcare, Gainesville, FL, United States, ⁴Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany

With the guidance of our in-house analytical modeling tool that was developed originally for minimizing both electrical coupling and magnetic coupling , we designed a 7T 8-channel T/R array with robust decoupling performance for both head and cervical spinal cord imaging, and our 7T 8 channel array demonstrated robust decoupling performance for both head and cervical spine cord imaging in both simulations and experiments.

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