Design and implementation of a quadrature RF volume coil for in-vivo MR brain imaging of rhesus macaque monkey in a stereotaxic head frame

Author

Roopnariane, Colin A. ; Miller, Patti A. ; Park, Bu Sik ; Ansel, Lukas ; Oh, Sukhoon ; Lieu, Christopher ; Subramanian, Thyagarajan ; Tofighi, Mohammad-Reza ; Collins, Christopher M.

Author_Institution

Capital Coll., Pennsylvania State Univ., Middletown, PA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-12 June 2009

Firstpage

1429

Lastpage

1432

Abstract

We describe the design and implementation of a unique coil for in-vivo rhesus macaque brain imaging in a stereotaxic device. The RF volume coil consists of a 2 turn solenoid and a saddle coil configured and fed in quadrature. Finite difference time domain method was used to design the coil. Images acquired show excellent homogeneity and SNR throughout the monkey´s brain.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; brain; coils; finite difference time-domain analysis; finite difference time domain method; in vivo MR brain imaging; quadrature RF volume coil; rhesus macaque monkey; stereotaxic device; stereotaxic head frame; Brain modeling; Coils; Educational institutions; Finite difference methods; Hydrogen; Magnetic fields; Magnetic heads; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radio frequency; Time domain analysis; Brain imaging; FDTD simulation; magnetic resonance imaging; quadrature coil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2009. MTT '09. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2803-8

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5165975

Filename

5165975