Abstract #2512

Inductively coupled small-diameter volume coils insertable to the knee coil at 7T for MR microscopy

Tomohisa Okada¹, Shinya Handa², Bill Ding², Shin-ichi Urayama¹, Koji Fujimoto¹, Atsushi Shima³, Takashi Ayaki⁴, Nobukatsu Sawamoto³, Ryosuke Takahashi⁴, Hirotaka Onoe¹, Tadashi Isa¹, and Labros Petropoulos²

¹Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ²Quality Electrodynamics, Mayfield Village, OH, United States, ³Department of Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁴Department of Neurology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

MR imaging is frequently correlated to histopathology of specimen, and their high-resolution imaging is required. However, it is not usually feasible using the whole-body human MR scanner. We implemented inductively coupled small diameter coils insertable to the knee coil at 7T without modification of the coil interface. Up to isotropic 50 μm imaging was successfully conducted, and fine details of the specimen could be visualized using the same sequence for in vivo scans. The proposed coils are easy to use and will facilitate investigation of image-histopathology correlation.

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