An SNR Comparison Between a Sodium Phased Array Coil and a Single Channel Coil

摘要: In this abstract, we compared a new phased array sodium breast coil with a single channel sodium coil. The new phased array coil consists of 7 sodium loops that are overlapped to minimize coupling to adjacent sodium loops. The coil used for comparison has a single transmit/receive 1 H loop and a single transmit/receive 23Na loop. The benefits of our new coil include larger volume coverage, and higher SNR (2-3x) than the single channel coil near the surface loops.