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Abstract #4354

A Five Channel Receive Array for Cardiac Imaging Using Hyperpolarized 13C at 3T.

William Dominguez-Viqueira1, Angus Z. Lau1, Albert P. Chen2, Charles H. Cunningham1, 3

1Imaging, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2GE Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hyperpolarized-13C substrates have become a promising tool to study real-time cardiac-metabolism in-vivo. Multi-channel receiver systems can provide similar SNR performance to a single surface coil, but with increased coverage. A single channel and a 5-channel array 13C receive coil were simulated in Matlab and compared with in-vivo measurements. SNR improvements at the base of the heart, were achieved by using the 5-channel coil array. This coil array may be suitable for human cardiac 13C studies and parallel imaging reconstruction in the near future.

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