3T sodium and proton composite array for magnetic resonance imaging

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9451917
APP PUB NO 20150362569A1
SERIAL NO

14247125

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The present invention is a dual resonant breast coil design for combined sodium and proton breast MRI with increased SNR at 3T when compared to a coil with a single proton and sodium channel. The coil consists of a 7-channel sodium receive phased array, a large sodium transmit coil, and a 4-channel hydrogen transceive array. An interleaved overlapping coil layout is used to reduce coupling between sodium and proton coil elements. The new composite array coil demonstrates a 2-5× improvement in SNR for sodium imaging when compared to a simple single-loop dual resonant design.

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  • UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hadley, J Rock Centerville, US 5 9
Kaggie, Joshua D West Jordan, US 2 2

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