Saw-tooth shaped legs birdcage RF coil for small animal NMR imaging at 1.5T MRI system

Author

Jung-Min Kim ; Ahmad, Sheikh Faisal ; Ick Chang Choi ; Young Cheol Kim ; Hyun Deok Kim

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

542

Lastpage

544

Abstract

In this paper we are demonstrating a novel method of designing and implementing a modified birdcage type Radio Frequency (RF) coil for small animal Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging. This RF coil is basically a band pass type birdcage coil which is specifically designed to perform the whole body NMR imaging of small animal at 1.5T MRI systems. The designed RF coil contains the saw tooth shaped pattern as the leg conductors. The magnetic field produced at 63.85 MHz resonance frequency by this designed saw toothed shape leg pattern RF coil is significantly stronger than the magnetic field produced by a conventional straight leg band pass type birdcage coil designed with the same dimension. A full wave 3D electromagnetic simulation is carried out to optimize the RF coil dimensions, capacitor values and to study the RF coil electromagnetic characteristics.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; electromagnetism; shapes (structures); MRI system; RF coil dimensions; RF coil electromagnetic characteristics; band pass type birdcage RF coil; band pass type birdcage type radio frequency coil; conventional straight leg band pass type birdcage coil; frequency 63.85 MHz; full wave 3D electromagnetic simulation; magnetic flux density 1.5 T; resonance frequency; saw tooth shaped pattern; saw-tooth shaped legs; small animal NMR imaging; small animal nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Capacitors; Coils; Conductors; Legged locomotion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Radio frequency; Birdcage Coil; FPCB Coil; MRI; RF Coil; Saw-tooth Coil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Seoul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2013.6694858

Filename

6694858