现代磁共振接收线圈设计原理与工业实践.pdfVIP

ReceiveArraysandCircuitry

CeciliaPossanzini,Ph.D.

PhilipsHealthcare,TheNetherlands

Email:cecilia.possanzini@

Introduction

Thissessionprovidesanoverviewofthedesignprincipandindustrialpracticeinthe

modernRFcoildesignforMRsystems.

ReceivecoilsareoneofthemostchallengingcomponentsoftheMRsystem,notonlyfroma

technicalperspectivebutalsobecausetheyareoneofthefewcomponentsindirectcontact

withthepatientcontainingactiveelectroniccircuits.Theproximityofthecoiltothepatient

isafundamentalaspectincoildesign,whichisveryoftenonlyassociatedtoelectronicdesign.

Duringthepast15years,therapidexpansionofparallelimaging[1]hasbeenfacilitatedby

thedevelopmentofphased-arraysurfacecoils,allowinganoptimizedsignaltonoiseratio

(SNR)overalargefieldofview(FOV).Theincreasednumberofelementsledtoanincreased

amountofelectronicsinthecoilandthereforetheneedforcomponentminiaturizationand

formethodstoreducecouplingsamongdifferentcircuits.Thesimultaneousacquisitionofthe

MRsignalusinganarrayofsurfacecoilshasbeenproposedbyRoemer[2]in1991andduring

theyearsithasbeenproventobecompetitivewithrespecttovolumecoilsforbothimaging

andspectroscopy.Thissessionfocusesonthemulti-elementreceivearrays,whicharethe

mostcommonlyusedcoilsinMRIexaminations.

CoilRequirementOverview

Thedesignofareceivecoilstartswithclinicalrequirements.Requirementscanbeclassified

intothefollowingcategories:

•Imagequality(IQ)performances(e.g.coverage,SNR,parallelimagingcapabilities,

uniformity)

•Workflow(e.g.easeofuse,weight,positioning)

•Patientcomfort(e.g.weight,o