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Abstract #2734

A Flexible 4 Ch. Transmit / 16ch. Receive Auditory Cortex Array for HiRes fMRI at 7 Tesla

Gregor Adriany1, Scott Schillak2, Matt Waks2, Brandon Tramm2, Alard Roebroeck3, Elia Formisano3, Federico DeMartino3, Essa S. Yacoub1, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Vaughan1, 2

1Center for MR Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 2Life Services LLC, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 3Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

A dedicated 7 Tesla coil array for bilateral high-resolution fMRI of the temporal lobe is presented. 4 transceiver and 12 receiver-only loop coils were realized within a slim FDM molded housing. Excellent decoupling between the transceiver and receiver arrays was achieved allowing for on coil preamplifiers.

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