TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garcia, Maíra M.
A1  - Oliveira, Tiago R.
A1  - Papoti, Daniel
A1  - Chaim, Khallil
A1  - Otaduy, Maria C. G.
A1  - Erni, Daniel
A1  - Zylka, Waldemar
T1  - Experimental and numerical investigations of a small animal coil for ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (7T)
T2  - Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
N2  - The purpose of this work was to develop and investigate a radiofrequency (RF) coil to perform image studies on small animals using the 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, installed in the imaging platform in the autopsy room (Portuguese acronym PISA), at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is the unique 7T MRI scanner installed in South America. Due to a high demand to create new specific coils for this 7T system, it is necessary to carefully assess the distribution of electromagnetic (EM) fields generated by the coils and evaluate the patient/object safety during MRI procedures. To achieve this goal 3D numerical methods were used to design and analyse a 8-rungs transmit/receive linearly driven birdcage coil for small animals. Calculated magnetic field (B 1) distributions generated by the coil were crosschecked with measured results, indicating good confidence in the simulated results.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3533
SN  - 2364-5504
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SP  - 525
EP  - 528
ER  -