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Abstract #2749

An 8 Channel Transmit Recieve Helmet Coil with Dodecahedral Symetry

Gillian Haemer1, Martijn A. Cloos2, Graham Wiggins1

1The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 2The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

We describe here an 8-channel Transmit-Receive (TxRx) array, consisting of 8 loop elements, placed with dodecahedral symmetry at a safe distance from the average human head. The design was modeled after a previously proposed coil (ref) which was designed to allow for full brain coverage as well as variation along all three directions, x, y, and z. It has been modified here to better fit around the head and to balance all areas of each element at a precise distance from the subject.

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