Title :
Flat RF body coil design for open MRI
Author_Institution :
Appl. Sci. Lab., Gen. Electr. Med. Syst., Waukesha, WI, USA
Abstract :
A flat disc shaped RF body coil design, for application in open vertical field high field strength MRI scanners, is presented. The homogeneity is better than 3 dB inside a 40 cm imaging sphere. Multi response optimization resulted in a 6 Sigma design
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; coils; optimisation; Biot-Savart simulation; MRI scanners; RF body coil design; flat disc shaped coil; high field strength; homogeneity; multiresponse optimization; open MRI; power efficiency; tolerance; vertical field; Coils; Conductors; Hardware; Magnetic fields; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnets; Minimally invasive surgery; Polarization; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900626
