Improved receiver coil for upper thoracic spine imaging in a vertical magnetic field
Author
Summary, in English
To improve image quality in the upper thoracic spine, an anatomically shaped copper wire loop coil, made to fit over the patient's shoulders, was constructed. The coil was permanently mounted on a foam-rubber vest to facilitate attachment to the patient. Phantom and in vivo studies of the performance of the coil in healthy volunteers showed as much as a two times greater signal-to-noise ratio relative to that of standard coils for the upper thoracic spine. In a patient with lesions in the upper thoracic cord, the coil gave better image quality in the region of interest than did the standard coils. The coil has been integrated into the authors' routine imaging equipment and has been the coil of choice for imaging of the upper thoracic spine on their 0.3-T vertical field system.
Publishing year
1992
Language
English
Pages
191-195
Publication/Series
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume
2
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Topic
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
Keywords
- Custom-built coils
- Spine
- MR
- 32.1214
- Technology
- Vertical field imaging
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1522-2586