Navid PourramzanGandji1, Christopher T. Sica2, Gary W. Yang3, Hannes Wiesner4, Soo Han Soon4, Xiao-Hong Zhu4, Michael Lanagan5, Wei Chen4, and Qing X. Yang1
1Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 2Radiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 3Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 4Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 5Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States
1Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 2Radiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 3Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 4Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 5Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States
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demonstrated experimentally that employing the uHDC materials in a standard clinical
phase array coil could reduce the total noise as well as increase the SNR substantially.
Figure 4) SNR maps (AU) of Baseline and with uHDC blocks. The
SNR is enhanced significantly (up to 4 times near the surface of the phantom).
Figure 3) Noise correlation matrix of the Baseline and with
uHDC blocks. This figure shows that the uHDC blocks reduce considerably the
noise correlation between adjacent loops as well as non-adjacent loops.