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Abstract #2780

Dedicated 8-Channel Transceive Array for Rat Head MRI at 9.4T

Yu Li1, Ewald Weber1, Ivan Hughes1, Stuart Crozier, Peter Ullmann2, Johannes Schneider2, Sven Junge2

1School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Select, Australia; 2Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH Ettlingen Germany, Ettlingen, Germany

To benefit from the advantages of Parallel Excitation (PEX)/Transmit SENSE and Spatially Selective Excitation (SSE) imaging, a dedicated 9.4T phased-array for rat head MRI was developed. An 8-channel transceive array coil was modelled /simulated and a prototype was constructed and tested in a Bruker 9.4T Biospec MRI system. Preliminary experimental results presented herein demonstrate the potential of the work.

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