Design and construction of an actively frequency-switchable RF coil for field-dependent Magnetisation Transfer Contrast MRI with fast field-cycling

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-139

  Choi, Chang Hoon ^a   Hutchison, James M S ^a   Lurie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field cycling; Magnetisation transfer; Multi tunable coil; PIN diode switch

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FIELD-CYCLING; GENERATING MECHANISM; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; IRRADIATION PULSE; MAGNETISATION; MULTI-TUNABLE COIL; OFF-RESONANCE; PIN DIODE; PIN DIODE SWITCHES; PRE-SATURATION; Q-FACTORS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RF COIL; SWITCHABLE;

IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

MAGNETIZATION;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 77957939727     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. S.D. Wolff, and R.S. Balaban Magnetization transfer contrast (MTC) and tissue water proton relaxation in vivo Magn. Reson. Med. 10 1 1989 135 144
2. R.M. Henkelman, X. Huang, Q.-S. Xiang, G.J. Stanisz, S.D. Swanson, and M.J. Bronskill Quantitative interpretation of magnetization transfer Magn. Reson. Med. 29 6 1993 759 766
3. T.L. Ceckler, and R.S. Balaban Field dispersion in water-macromolecular proton magnetization transfer J. Magn. Reson. Ser B. 105 1994 242 248
4. P. Martirosian, A. Boss, M. Deimling, B. Kiefer, C. Schraml, N.F. Schwenzer, C.D. Claussen, F. Schick, Systematic variation of off-resonance prepulses for clinical magnetization transfer contrast imaging at 0.2, 1.5, and 3.0 Tesla. Invest. Radiol. 43 (1) (2008) 16-26.
5. D.J. Lurie, M.A. Foster, D. Yeung, and J.M.S. Hutchison Design, construction and use of a large-sample field-cycled PEDRI imager Phys. Med. Biol. 43 7 1998 1877 1886
6. S.E. Ungersma, N.I. Matter, J.W. Hardy, R.D. Venook, A. Macovski, S.M. Conolly, G.C. Scott, Magnetic resonance imaging with T1 dispersion contrast. Magn. Reson. Med. 55 (6) (2006) 1362-1371.
7. J.K. Alford, B.K. Rutt, T.J. Scholl, W.B. Handler, and B.A. Chronik Delta relaxation enhanced mr: improving activation - Specificity of molecular probes through R1 dispersion imaging Magn. Reson. Med. 61 4 2009 796 802
8. C.-H. Choi, G.R. Davies, D.J. Lurie, Off-resonance magnetisation transfer contrast MRI using fast field-cycling technique, in: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, USA, 2009, p. 2747.
9. C.-H. Choi, G.R. Davies, and D.J. Lurie Off-resonance magnetisation transfer contrast (MTC) MRI using fast field-cycling (FFC) J. Magn. Reson. 204 1 2010 145 149
10. 1H MR imaging using a triple resonant RF coil setup J. Magn. Reson. 200 2009 134 136
11. 31P NMR J. Magn. Reson. 65 1985 122 129
12. G. Isaac, M.D. Schnall, R.E. Lenkinski, and K. Vogele A design for a double-tuned birdcage coil for use in an integrated MRI/MRS examination J. Magn. Reson. 89 1990 41 45
13. G.X. Shen, F.E. Boada, and K.R. Thulborn Dual-frequency, dual-quadrature, birdcage RF coil design with identical B1 pattern for sodium and proton imaging of the human brain at 1.5 T Magn. Reson. Med. 38 1997 717 725
14. F. Hwang, and D.I. Hoult Automatic probe tuning and matching Magn. Reson. Med. 39 1998 214 222
15. L. Tugan Muftuler, G. Gulsen, K.D. Sezen, and O. Nalcioglu Automatic tuned MRI RF coil for multinuclear imaging of small animals at 3 T J. Magn. Reson. 155 2002 39 44
16. R.P. de Alejo, C. Garrido, P. Villa, I. Rodriguez, J.J. Vaquero, J. Ruiz-Cabello, and M. Cortijo Automatic tuning and matching of a small multifrequency saddle coil at 4.7 T Magn. Reson. Med. 51 2004 869 873
17. H. Hirata, T. Walczak, and H.M. Swartz Electronically tunable surface-coil-type resonator for L-band EPR spectroscopy J. Magn. Reson. 142 2000 159 167
18. J.R. Garbow, C. Mcintosh, M.S. Conradi, Actively decoupled transmit-receive coil-pair for mouse brain MRI Concepts, Magn. Reson. B, 33 (4) (2008) 252-259.
19. E.A. Barberi, J.S. Gati, B.K. Rutt, and R.S. Menon A transmit-only/ receive-only (TORO) RF system for high-field MRI/MRS applications Magn. Reson. Med. 43 2000 284 289
20. C.-H. Choi, I. Lavdas, J.M.S. Hutchison, D.J. Lurie, Design and construction of an actively frequency-switchable RF coil for magnetisation transfer contrast MRI using fast field-cycling, in: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010, p. 3923.