Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Lumen Wall using Quadrature-typed Inside-out Receiver Coil

회전자계 역수신 코일을 이용한 관벽의 자기공명 영상

  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

This study Proposes a quadrature-typed inside-out receiver coil to obtain magnetic resonance(MR) images of lumen wall. This means that the coil should receive the signals from out-side of receiver coil. This coil has wide and uniform sensitive region to compare with previous coils such as anti-solenoid coil, octal-pole coil and so on. These coils have the disadvantages that sensitive region is narrow and inhomogenous. The proposed coil is consist of two saddle coils of which directions are orthogonal to one another. The sensitivity maps of octal-Pole coil single-saddle coil and quadrature-typed inside-out coil were obtained by computer simulation. And phantom images for each coil were obtained to evaluate the performances of the coil using both 1.5T superconducting and 0.3 Permanent magnet MRI system. The uniformity of quadrature coil's sensitivity map was superior to that of octal-polel coil. Experimentally measured SNR of quadrature coil is also 36% higher than that of single-saddle coil This study shows the possibility of quadrature-typed inside-out receiver coil for the MR lumen wall images.

본 연구에서는 회전자계역수신코일(quadrature typed inside-out receiver coil)을 제작하고 이를 이용하여 코일 바깥 영역인 팬텀 관벽에 대한 자기공명영상(Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 이하 MRI라 함)을 얻었다. 자기공명영상법에 있어서 역 솔레노이드코일이나 8극 코일과 같은 기존의 역수신코일(inside-out receiver coil)은 영상영역(Imaging region)이 좁을 뿐만 아니라 영상영역 내의 영상신호가 불균일 (inhomogeneous)하다는 단점들이 있었다. 본 연구에서는 이들을 보완하면서 신호대잡음비(S/N ratio)도 이론적으로 약 1.4배 높일 수 있는 회전자계역수신코일(quadratic inside-out receiver coil)을 제안하여 관벽의 영상을 얻을 수 있는 코일을 개발하였다. 코일은 두 개의 안장코일 (saddle coil)을 서로 수직 방향으로 배치하여 서로 간섭을 일으키지 않으면서 최대의 신호를 수신할 수 있게 하였다. 코일에 대한 컴퓨터 모의실험(simulation)을 8극코일. 단일안장코일과 회전자계코일에 대해서 수행하였고 이들 각각 코일을 제작하여 팬텀 관벽의 영상 실험을 1.5T와 0.3T MRI 장치에서 수행하였다. 회전자계역수신코일의 성능은 단일안장코일과 8극코일보다 감도의 균일도가 우수하였고 신호대 잡음비도 단일안장코일에 비하여 약 36% 높게 측정되어 이론적인 41%와 근사한 결과를 얻었다

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