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The Design of an Open MRI 4-Channel Receive-Only Phased Array Knee Coil

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In this work, a new prototype 4-channel receive-only phased array (PA) knee coil for open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system was designed and constructed. The knee coil was used in a series of pilot MRI studies on a homogenous cylindrical phantom and human knee. From the simulation and experimental results, it is shown that both the arrangement of the coil elements and the width of the coil elements within this new coil array are critical design factors for the coil array to work optimally in an open MRI system. Experimental results showed that a uniform phantom image can be acquired by the prototype phased array knee coil and human knee images further demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method. The proposed method is appropriate for the design of other open MRI phased array coils.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Of China (Nos. 61372046, 11571012).

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  1. School of Information Sciences and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

    Xiaowei He, Renbo Yuan & Yuqing Hou

  2. Jiangsu Magspin Instrument Co. Ltd, Kunshan, China

    Bing Keong Li

  3. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Bing Keong Li

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He, X., Yuan, R., Li, B.K. et al. The Design of an Open MRI 4-Channel Receive-Only Phased Array Knee Coil. Appl Magn Reson 47, 499–510 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-016-0768-6

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