Abstract #1604

Design of an over-overlapped wearable 3T pelvic phased array using a capacitor-terminated coaxial coil

Ming Lu^1,2, Junzhong Xu^1,2, Sandeep S. Arora³, John C. Gore^1,2, and Xinqiang Yan^1,2

¹Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, ²Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, ³Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among men in the US. MRI is a useful tool to assess the presence and extent of prostate cancer, and diagnostic accuracy relies on acquiring images with high SNR. We aimed to improve the performance of such arrays by using flexible coaxial coil technology and an over-overlapping layout to increase the number of coil elements without sacrificing coil size.

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