Application of high‐density 2D receiver coil arrays for improved SNR in prostate MRI

• Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 850 - 863
• Main Authors: Riederer, Stephen J., Borisch, Eric A., Du, Qingshuo, Froemming, Adam T., Hulshizer, Thomas C., Kawashima, Akira, McGee, Kiaran P., Robb, Fraser, Rossman, Phillip J., Takahashi, Naoki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2025
• Subjects: AIR coils; Arrays; Coils; Density; Diameters; Equipment Design; Humans; Image acquisition; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - instrumentation; Male; Middle Aged; MRI receiver coils; Phantoms, Imaging; Prostate; Prostate - diagnostic imaging; prostate cancer; Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; thin‐slice MRI; AIR coils; prostate cancer; MRI receiver coils; thin‐slice MRI

Purpose To study if adaptive image receive (AIR) receiver coil elements can be configured into a 2D array with high (>45% by diameter) element‐to‐element overlap, allowing improved SNR at depth (0.7–1.5× element diameter) versus conventional (20%) overlap. Methods An anterior array composed of tw...