An Array RF Coil for Rabbit Thoracic Arteries Imaging at 200MHz
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Introduction Parallel imaging is becoming standard in clinical systems but it still relatively uncommon in animal MRI studies. Most of the animal coil array designs have so focused on mouse and rat imaging applications, however larger animal models such as rabbits are also widely used in research, for example in vessel wall studies. The purpose of this work was to design a 4-channel array coil for rabbit’s thoracic arteries imaging at 4.7T.
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