Rennings, Andreas; Litinsky, A.; Schneider, Philipp; Orzada, Stephan; Otto, Simon:
A full-wavelength dipole RF coil element for 7T MRI with maximized longitudinal FOV and twpeak SAR distribution
In: ISMRM 19th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2011); 7-13 May 2011, Montreal, Canada - Berkeley, CA: ISMRM, 2011, p. 3813
2011book article/chapter in collection
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Title:
A full-wavelength dipole RF coil element for 7T MRI with maximized longitudinal FOV and twpeak SAR distribution
Author:
Rennings, AndreasUDE
LSF ID
3322
ORCID
0000-0003-4606-3712ORCID iD
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Litinsky, A.;Schneider, PhilippUDE
LSF ID
52353
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Orzada, Stephan;Otto, SimonUDE
LSF ID
49862
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Abstract:

Recently multi-channel RF coils based on several longitudinally oriented strip-line elements have been successfully applied in ultra-high field MRI. Among the different utilized strip-line approaches, the symmetrically fed dipole RF coil element initially presented in [1] which was terminated by two meander in [2, 3] seems to be one of the most promising candidates. This 25 cm long dipole element is slightly longer than half a wavelength (“λ/2-plus”) and is therefore not intrinsically eigen-resonant. In [4] the first homogeneous “from top to toe” MR image at 7 T has been scanned with the help of a whole-body coil array consisting of 16 of these meander elements. The authors took 28 successive overlapping scans, each with a longitudinal extend of approx. 25 cm. On the basis of this λ/2-plus-approach we developed a longitudinally extended coil element which exhibits a nearly full-wavelength resonant current distribution (“λ-minus”) with two distinct improvements – an RF field of view (FOV) that is maximized due to the longer extent and a lowered peak SAR10g due to a more appropriate two-peak electric field distribution.