Publication detail

Comparing Saddle, Slotted-tube and Parallel-plate Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

BARTUŠEK, K. NEŠPOR, D. DOKOUPIL, Z.

Original Title

Comparing Saddle, Slotted-tube and Parallel-plate Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

English Title

Comparing Saddle, Slotted-tube and Parallel-plate Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

en

Original Abstract

The paper is concerned with a comparison of the properties of RF coils of three configurations for MRI measurements on small animals. In comparison with the classical saddle coil the proposed modification of slotted-tube coil exhibits identical homogeneity of B1 field in a larger space. The parallel-plate coil has a satisfactory homogeneity of B1 field over the whole internal space. The signal-to-noise ratio measured for all three coils is roughly the same and is given by the magnitude of RF pre-amplifier noise. As the slotted-tube and parallel-plate coils have a lower inductance compared with the saddle coil, they can be tuned to resonance on the 200 MHz frequency even at larger dimensions. The results show that the parallel-plate coil has very good properties for the measurement of small animals.

English abstract

The paper is concerned with a comparison of the properties of RF coils of three configurations for MRI measurements on small animals. In comparison with the classical saddle coil the proposed modification of slotted-tube coil exhibits identical homogeneity of B1 field in a larger space. The parallel-plate coil has a satisfactory homogeneity of B1 field over the whole internal space. The signal-to-noise ratio measured for all three coils is roughly the same and is given by the magnitude of RF pre-amplifier noise. As the slotted-tube and parallel-plate coils have a lower inductance compared with the saddle coil, they can be tuned to resonance on the 200 MHz frequency even at larger dimensions. The results show that the parallel-plate coil has very good properties for the measurement of small animals.

Keywords

MRI measurements, RF coils, homogeneity of B1, numerical analysis

RIV year

2014

Released

01.12.2014

Publisher

De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o.

Location

Slovenská Republika

ISBN

1335-8871

Periodical

Measurement Science Review

Year of study

14

Number

1

State

SK

Pages from

171

Pages to

176

Pages count

6

Documents

BibTex 


@article{BUT111197,
  author="Karel {Bartušek} and Dušan {Nešpor} and Zdeněk {Dokoupil}",
  title="Comparing Saddle, Slotted-tube and Parallel-plate Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging",
  annote="The paper is concerned with a comparison of the properties of RF coils of three configurations for MRI measurements on small animals. In comparison with the classical saddle coil the proposed modification of slotted-tube coil exhibits identical homogeneity of B1 field in a larger space. The parallel-plate coil has a satisfactory homogeneity of B1 field over the whole internal space. The signal-to-noise ratio measured for all three coils is roughly the same and is given by the magnitude of RF pre-amplifier noise. As the slotted-tube and parallel-plate coils have a lower inductance compared with the saddle coil, they can be tuned to resonance on the 200 MHz frequency even at larger dimensions. The results show that the parallel-plate coil has very good properties for the measurement of small animals.",
  address="De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o.",
  chapter="111197",
  doi="10.2478/msr-2014-0023",
  institution="De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o.",
  number="1",
  volume="14",
  year="2014",
  month="december",
  pages="171--176",
  publisher="De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o.",
  type="journal article in Web of Science"
}