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Abstract #0392

A Travelling Wave Antenna with Matched Waveguide for Head Imaging at 7 T

Daniel James Lee1, Paul M. Glover1

1SPMMRC, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

The travelling wave approach to MRI uses an antenna to propagate a TW through the bore of a 7T+ scanner. A novel design where the antenna is incorporated into a dielectric waveguide which then matches the incident wave into the head is presented. Such a set up has been constructed and tested in vivo.

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