Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
405-03-002 ISMRM Abstract

32-element Transceiver Dual-Tuned 31P-1H Loop/Dipole Array for Human Brain Spectroscopy at 9.4T

Primary: Physics & Engineering - RF Arrays & Systems
Secondary: Physics & Engineering - High-Field MRI
405-03-002 · Ultra-High Field Hardware and Systems · Tuesday, 12 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Ballroom West
Keywords: RF Arrays & Systems Ultra-high field X-nuclei Dipole Array
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Georgiy Solomakha 1, Felix Glang1,2, Sebastian Mueller1, Praveen I Valsala1, Stephan Orzada3, Tanja Platt3, Andreas Korzowski3,4, Mark E Ladd3,4,5,6, Klaus Scheffler1,7, Rolf Pohmann1, Nikolai I Avdievich1
1High-Field Magnetic Resonance, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
2Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
3Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
4Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
5Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
6Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
7Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Presenting Author: Georgiy Solomakha

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