Very low field MRI for brain imaging
Samson Lecurieux Lafayette1 and Claude Fermon1
1SPEC - CEA Saclay - Université Paris Saclay, Saclay, France
We have
developed a MRI device working at 10mT for brain imaging. Parallel acquisition
and rapid sequences have been implemented in order to speed up the acquisition
time. Strengths and limitations compared to high field are given.
Figure 3: The very low field MRI in the magnetically shielded room.
Figure 1: The eight channels sensor. Each channel is
matched and tuned, and decoupled from emission radiofrequency.