MRI Coil Development

MRI Coil Development

16-Channel Transmit Array
This is a prototype coil developed in collaboration with the NRI in Incheon, South Korea, that can be used for parallel transmission and reception. It is driven by eight independent power amplifiers, each transmit channel is then fed to two coils. In receive mode, 16 completely independent receive loops are available.

Sodium Coil Array
This coil array, intended for imaging sodium nuclei at 9.4T, consists of a transmit birdcage and an eight channel receive array. Both coils can be split for easy patient positioning and are based on the design of a 3T MR-PET coil array from Siemens.

Modified 8-Channel pTX Coil
This single channel transmit, 8-channel receive coil fabricated by Rapid Biomedical has been modified for parallel transmission systems. It now allows the use of eight independent transmitters as well as eight receivers.

Body Coil for Small Animals
Designed as a classical birdcage, this coil is installed in the 9.4T animal scanner. It operates in conjunction with any receive only coil array in the same manner as the coil setup in modern clinical MRI systems.

Animal Coil for Clinical Scanner
To investigate the usefulness of clinical human systems for small animal imaging, this 3T solenoid coil has been designed. It allows imaging of rats under anesthesia in a 3T Tim Trio system.