Kuan-Hung Cho1, Po-Hsun He1, Hsuan-Han Chiang1, Ming-Jye Chen1, Ezequiel Farrher2, Nadim Jon Shah2,3, Chang-Hoon Choi2, and Li-Wei Kuo1,4
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan, 2Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – 4, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, 3Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 4Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan, 2Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – 4, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, 3Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 4Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
A multi-purpose coil arrangement
incorporating a small loop coil and a position-adjustable add-on saddle coil is
proposed to enhance the imaging coverage of anatomical images and improve the
SNR in the regions distant to the surface coil.
The design of small
surface coil (a), saddle coil (b) and surface coil combined with the saddle coil
(c and d). The diameter of all copper wires is 1 mm.
(a) The position of
12 selected ROI overlaid on T2WIs using small surface coil only (left) and proposed
coil (right) respectively. One group of ROIs (1 to 4) is located at regions
close surface coil, another group (5 to 8) is located at regions with middle
distance from surface coil and the other group of ROIs (9 to 12) is at regions
with farthest distance from surface coil. (b) The SNR results from 12 ROIs
using small surface coil only and proposed coil respectively.