Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Ultra-High Field Hardware and Systems

Ultra-High Field Hardware and Systems

Oral

Physics & Engineering

Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Ballroom West

13:40 - 15:30

Moderators: Chris Rodgers & Charlotte Sappo & Daniel Cocking

Session Number: 405-03

No CME/CE Credit

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Advances in hardware, software, and systems at ultra-high field enable answering new scientific and clinical questions

Skill Level: Intermediate

13:40		405-03-001. A flexible 56-channel receive array for body imaging at 7T Russell Lagore, Tobey Haluptzok, Elnaz Mahmoudi Mahmoudalilou, Ethan Polcyn, Steen Moeller, Gregor Adriany, Gregory Metzger University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America Impact: A flexible 56-ch receiver array that conforms to the human body was developed for 7 tesla imaging. Paired with an independently implemented 8 channel transceiver, improved SNR, parallel imaging and coverage were obtained.
13:51		405-03-002. 32-element Transceiver Dual-Tuned 31P-1H Loop/Dipole Array for Human Brain Spectroscopy at 9.4T Georgiy Solomakha, Felix Glang, Sebastian Mueller, Praveen Valsala, Stephan Orzada, Tanja Platt, Andreas Korzowski, Mark Ladd, Klaus Scheffler, Rolf Pohmann, Nikolai Avdievich Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Impact: We demonstrate the feasibility of constructing and decoupling a 32-element double-tuned UHF tight-fit TxRx human head array coil. The proposed array design could be also used at higher field, i.e. 10.5T, 11.7T, and 14T.
14:02		405-03-003. 7T vs 11.7T: Design of an 8-Channel Transmit 32-channel Receive 11.7T Head Coil and Evaluation of SNR Gains Son Chu, Jeslin Issac, Caroline LeSter, Alexis Amadon, Nicolas Boulant, Shajan Gunamony University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Impact: Optimised RF coils are essential to extract the promised SNR gains at extremely high magnetic field strengths. In this work, we present an 8-channel transmit 32-channel receive 11.7T head coil, which achieves a 3.5-fold central SNR gain compared to 7T.
14:13		405-03-004. 16-channel 2H High Impedance Coil Array integrated with 16-channel 1H dual-row transceiver Array for Deuterium Metabolic Imag Bei Zhang, Anke Henning Impact: The 7T ²H/¹H array we designed advances multinuclear imaging by providing robust, good SNR performance for deuterium and proton studies. Its innovative design simplifies system integration and broadens access to metabolic imaging techniques previously inaccessible at ultra-high magnetic fields.
14:24		405-03-005. Simultaneous EEG-fMRI at 7 T: Optimisation of EEG artifact detection loops to minimise Radio Frequency Field interference Rebecca Meagher, Tracy Warbrick, Cilia Jaeger, Ozlem Ipek, David Carmichael School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom Impact: This study establishes design principles for safe, high-quality EEG-fMRI at 7 T by identifying materials and geometries that prevent RF resonance, paving the way for broader adoption of simultaneous EEG-fMRI at ultra-high fields.
14:35		405-03-006. Parallel-transmit soft-PINS: a novel approach using intelligent ultra-short slab-selective subpulse design Xin Shao, Kamil Ugurbil, Xiaoping Wu Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, United States of America Impact: Enabling uniform multiband excitation with power independent of number of slices (PINS), the proposed parallel transmit (pTx) pulse design method is believed to hold a promise for many ultrahigh field MRI applications, particularly those relying on simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging.
14:46		405-03-007. First human subject images with a sealed, low-cryogen, high-performance head-only 7T MRI scanner (Compact 7T) Thomas Foo, Nastaren Abad, Mark Vermilyea, Gene Conte, Chris Van Epps, Justin Ricci, Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Vijay Soni, Yihe Hua, Wolfgang Stautner, Eric Fiveland, Keith Park, Eric Budesheim, John III Huston, Christopher Hess, Yunhong Shu, Dan Vigneron, Duan Xu, Desmond Yeo, Seung-Kyun Lee GE HealthCare Technology and Innovation Center, Niskayuna, United States of America Impact: The low-cryogen, lightweight Compact 7T system makes it easier to install and operate a 7T MRI. Furthermore, With SR_max = 820 T/m/s, 4x that of whole-body 7T, spatial distortion and signal loss in EPI typical at 7T are markedly reduced.
14:57		405-03-008. Whole-Brain T2-weighted SPACE at 7T – comparing the FOCUS and GRAPE universal pulses parallel transmit approaches Dimo Ivanov, Eberhard Pracht, Desmond Tse, Daniel Löwen, Jürgen Herrler, Ali Aghaeifar, Tony Stoecker Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Impact: For 3D fast spin-echo (SPACE) acquisitions at 7 Tesla, precomputed universal pulses based on the GRAPE algorithm can match the performance of fast online-customized FOCUS pulses, simplifying (clinical) neuro protocols that demand fast, homogeneous whole-brain T2-weighted imaging.
15:08		405-03-009. Calibration-free pTx-enabled 2D TSE at 7T: a scalable 2-spokes approach with assessment of the slice profile effect Anna Reitmann, Joseph Brégeat, Franck Mauconduit, Jürgen Herrler, Alexandre Vignaud, Aurélien Massire, Vincent Gras CEA NeuroSpin, Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France Impact: This work enables calibration-free and more reliable T₂-weighted TSE imaging at 7T by reducing off-resonance sensitivity through scalable nonsymmetrical spokes RF pulses. These advances improve image quality and consistency, facilitating broader clinical and research use of ultra–high-field MRI systems.
15:19		405-03-010. Reducing 3D T2* Gradient-Recalled Echo sequence artefacts at 11.7T using pTx, CLEAR-SWI and locally-scrambled ordering Alexandre Vignaud, Franck Mauconduit, Amir Seginer, Rita Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Korbinian Eckstein, Blanche Bapst, Vincent Gras, Nicolas Boulant CEA NeuroSpin, Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France Impact: Improve the neuroradiological reading of T₂*-weighted images by removing most artefacts observed at UHF