Clinical 7-T MRI for neuroradiology: strengths, weaknesses, and ongoing challenges

BJ Burkett, AJ Fagan, JP Felmlee, DF Black, JI Lane… - Neuroradiology, 2021 - Springer
Since the relatively recent regulatory approval for clinical use in both Europe and North
America, 7-Tesla (T) MRI has been adopted for clinical practice at our institution. Based on …

A review of parallel transmit arrays for ultra-high field MR imaging

CH Choi, A Webb, S Orzada… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel transmission (pTX) techniques are required to tackle a number of challenges, eg,
the inhomogeneous distribution of the transmit field and elevated specific absorption rate …

Double‐row dipole/loop combined array for human whole brain imaging at 7 T

NI Avdievich, AV Nikulin, L Ruhm, AW Magill… - NMR in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Important issues in designing radiofrequency (RF) coils for human head imaging at ultra‐
high field (UHF;≥ 7 T) are the inhomogeneity and longitudinal coverage (along the magnet …

Robust RF shimming and small‐tip‐angle multispoke pulse design with finite‐difference regularization

A Paez, C Gu, Z Cao - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose A new regularizer is proposed for the magnitude least‐squares optimization
algorithm, to ensure robust parallel transmit RF shimming and small‐tip‐angle multispoke …

Double‐row 16‐element folded‐end dipole transceiver array for 3D RF shimming of the whole human brain at 9.4 T

AV Nikulin, D Bosch, GA Solomakha… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Homogeneity and longitudinal coverage of transmit (Tx) human head RF coils at ultrahigh
field (UHF,≥ 7 T) can be improved by 3D RF shimming, which requires using multi‐row Tx …

Scaling the mountains: what lies above 7 Tesla magnetic resonance?

R Schmidt, E Kleban, S Bollmann, CJ Wiggins… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2023 - Springer
The progress of ultrahigh-field magnetic resonance (UHFMR) provides meaningful
technologies for the advancement of biomedical and diagnostic MRI. The argument for …

Evaluation of coaxial dipole antennas as transceiver elements of human head array for ultra‐high field MRI at 9.4 T

GA Solomakha, D Bosch, F Glang… - Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The aim of this work is to evaluate a new eight‐channel transceiver (TxRx) coaxial
dipole array for imaging of the human head at 9.4 T developed to improve specific …

On the design and manufacturing of miniaturized microstripline power splitters for driving multicoil transmit arrays with arbitrary ratios at 7 T

CR Sappo, GL Gallego, WA Grissom… - NMR in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of the current study was to implement unequal microstrip power splitters for
parallel transmission at 7 T that are optimized for size and loss and that can be configured …

Customized radiofrequency phased-array coil combining transmit-only, receive-only, and transmit/receive coils for magnetic resonance imaging of visual cortex at 7 …

HS Kim, BP Song, R Kim, WC Choi, D Kim… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ultra-high magnetic field (7 Tesla) enables
detailed and non-invasive studies of the function and anatomy of the human visual cortex …