High-Pass Two-Dimensional Ladder Network Resonators for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Author

Voss, H.U. ; Ballon, D.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiol., Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., New York, NY

Volume

53

Issue

12

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2590

Lastpage

2593

Abstract

A novel two-dimensional ladder network resonator design is introduced for signal transmission and detection in magnetic resonance imaging. It is shown that planar structures consisting solely of inductively coupled elements have a high-pass eigenmode spectrum and exhibit eigenfunctions which can be used for magnetic resonance imaging, including quadrature operation. Two 5 times 5 element prototypes, a planar surface coil and a volume head coil, are presented to demonstrate the suitability of the design for imaging at 3.0 Tesla

Keywords

biomedical MRI; coils; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; resonators; 3.0 T; eigenfunctions; high-pass eigenmode spectrum; high-pass two-dimensional ladder network resonators; inductively coupled elements; magnetic resonance imaging; planar surface coil; signal detection; signal transmission; volume head coil; Biomedical imaging; Coils; Couplings; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Magnetic heads; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Radiology; Two dimensional displays; Coils; magnetic resonance imaging; resonators; Computer-Aided Design; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Image Enhancement; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Phantoms, Imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9294

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBME.2006.880870

Filename

4015622