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Abstract #2696

Multimodal Travelling Wave MRI with Two Coaxial Modules

Stefan Alt1, Reiner Umathum1, Wolfhard Semmler1, Michael Bock1, 2

1Dept. of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 2Radiology - Medical Physics, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

To provide a "body coil" for high-field MRI systems, FDTD simulation results of a novel travelling wave setup are shown, that used two coaxial modules. The setup is able to excite higher-order modes of wave propagation enclosed in a defined imaging area. While this creates diverse distributions of the transverse magnetic field for B1-shimming, the transmission efficiency remains inferior to resonant structures.

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