EIGHT-CHANNEL TRANSMIT/RECEIVE HEAD ARRAY FOR USE WITH ULTRA-LOW OUTPUT IMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS Conference Paper

abstract

• Parallel transmit technology for magnetic resonance imaging can mitigate the challenges with the transmit field (B1) inhomogeneity and capture the increased signal-to-noise ratio benefit at high field strengths. Most of the available parallel transmit systems use conventional amplifier architectures with array coils that employ complex decoupling methods to isolate the individual elements. Current sources and ultra-low output impedance amplifiers offer the advantage of providing some additional decoupling to the array elements, allowing more flexibility in the array design. We present our work designing and building an eight-channel transmit/receive head array to work with ultra-low output impedance amplifiers on a 3 Tesla GE clinical scanner. 2013 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

authors

• McDougall, Mary
• Wright, Steven

published proceedings

• 2013 IEEE 10TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (ISBI)

author list (cited authors)

• Moody, K. L., Hollingsworth, N. A., Nielsen, J., Noll, D., McDougall, M. P., & Wright, S. M.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Moody, Katherine L||Hollingsworth, Neal A||Nielsen, Jon-Fredrik||Noll, Doug||McDougall, Mary P||Wright, Steven M

publication date

• January 2013

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings / IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from nano to macro. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging  Journal

keywords

• Decoupling
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Parallel Transmit
• Transmit/receive Head Array
• Ultra-low Output Impedance Amplifiers

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/isbi.2013.6556633

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781467364546

start page

• 950

end page

• 953

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isbi.2013.6556633