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Abstract #4386

Brain Arrays for Neonatal and Premature Neonatal Imaging at 3T

Azma Mareyam1, Duan Xu2, Jonathan R. Polimeni1, 3, Eli Siskind1, Vijay Alagappan4, James N. Blau1, Boris Keil1, 3, Nan Tian2, Wei Zhao1, 3, Lawrence L. Wald1, 3

1A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Charlestown, MA, United States; 2UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States; 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 4GE Healthcare, Cleveland, OH, United States

Imaging premature and neonatal babies in incubators is challenging due to time constraints, motion artifacts and the need for high resolution. These issues call for increased detector sensitivity to achieve high spatial resolution and highly-parallelized array image acquisition. In this work we have constructed and tested two 16-channel brain arrays sized for roughly 32 and 36 weeks gestational age as well as a 32-channel array for term neonates. The SNR and g-factors of these arrays are compared to each other and to an adult sized coil.

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