Development of Quadrature Detection Surface Coil: for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3T MRI System

  • Chu, Myung-Ja (Departments of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Choe, Bo-Young (Departments of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Kim, Kyung-Nam (Medinus Co. LTD. Korea) ;
  • Chung, Sung-Taek (Medinus Co. LTD. Korea) ;
  • Oh, Chang-Hyun (Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Lee, Hyoung-Koo (Departments of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Suh, Tae-Suk (Departments of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Published : 2002.11.01

Abstract

목적: We has proposed a surface coil which has improved SNR compared with the standard head coil. Usually, a cylindrical head coil provide good homogeneity but less SNR than surface coil. A surface coil has better SNR at the expense of image homogeneity. In this paper, a surface coil of transmit-receive mode offers a better SNR as compared with a head coil.

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