Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
669-03-009 ISMRM Abstract

An 8-Channel T/R Coil for Portable Mid-Field Head-only MRI

Primary: Physics & Engineering - RF Arrays & Systems
Secondary: Physics & Engineering - Parallel Transmit & Multiband
669-03-009 · RF Arrays and Systems · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row J
Keywords: Parallel Transmit & Multiband RF Arrays & Systems Portable systems Mid-field MRI
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Jue Hou 1, Lance DelaBarre2, Ningyuan Hu3, PARKER J JENKINS2, Jinglong Guan3, Zhihua Ren4, Joseph Bailey5, Konstantinos Bouloukakis5, Steven Suddarth2, Sebastian Theilenberg6, Daniel C Pizetta7, Taylor Froelich2, Yun Shang8, Mateus J Martins9, Edson Vidoto9, Russell L Lagore2, Julia Marcolan9, Angela Teeple2, Brooklynn Dobson2, Chathura L Kumaragamage10, Terence Nixon6, Qi Liu1, Fuyi Fang3, Gregor Adriany2, Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez11, Mailin Lemke11, R Gilberto Gonzalez12, John T Vaughan Jr.13, Robin A de Graaf6, Christoph Juchem14, Alberto Tannus9, Ben Parkinson5, Jian Xu1, Bing Wu3, Michael Garwood2
1United Imaging Healthcare North America, Houston, United States of America
2Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Dept. of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America
3United Imaging Healthcare, Shanghai, China
4School of Biomedical Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Medical Materials and Devices, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
5Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
6Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, United States of America
7Sao Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, IFSC – USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil
8Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, United States of America
9Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia por Ressonância Magnética (CIERMag), University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
10University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
11School of Design Innovation, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
12Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
13Columbia MR Research Center, Columbia University, New York, United States of America
14Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Presenting Author: Jue Hou

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