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#828

Highly Efficient Inductively Coupled


Double Resonant Surface Coil for
Simultaneous 1H/19F PET-MRI

C. Findeklee, C. Leussler, D. Wirtz, J. Keupp


Philips Research
April 26, 2013
Declaration of Relevant
Financial Interests or Relationships
Speaker Name: Christian Findeklee

I have the following relevant financial interest or relationship to disclose with


regard to the subject matter of this presentation:

Company name: Philips Technologie GmbH


Type of relationship: Employment
Motivation and Specification

• 180mm Ø 3T-MRI-PET
research system in
University of Aachen (RWTH)
• Monitoring 19F-marked Tissue
Engineering Implants
• Highest possible SNR for 19F
and 1H, i.e. 120MHz / 128MHz
• remote dual frequency
tuning/matching capability
• Identical B1-profiles for
homogeneity correction

Julia Frese et al.: Generation and imaging of patient customized implants. Biomed Tech (Berl), Sep 6 2012
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Mechanical Design

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Mechanical Design

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1H

19F

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1H 19F

19F 1H

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1H 19F

19F 1H

+
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1H 19F

1H, 19F
19F 1H

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1H, 19F

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1H, 19F

𝐿=0

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2
𝜔𝑀
𝑍⟶
𝑍
19F
1H, 19F 1H

𝐿=0

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19F
1H

𝐿=0

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19F
1H

< -29 dB

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19F
1H
Increase resonance frequency

< -29 dB

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1H
19F

< -9.6 dB

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1H
19F

Decrease resonance frequency

< -9.6 dB

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1H

19F

< -31 dB

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1H

19F
Increase stored energy

< -31 dB

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1H, 19F

- dB

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Half Q

doubled

< -11 dB

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Half Q

Increase coupling

doubled

< -11 dB

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< -36 dB

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Prototype Coil,
realized by Selective Laser Sintering (Polyamid SLS)

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Prototype Coil

TR switch unit including channel combiner and preamplifier

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Matching

no mutual coupling matched for both frequencies

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Phantom Images
Water Perfluoro-Crown-Ether
H 2O C10F20O5

3D gradient-echo sequence, 0.5mm resolution, FOV (100mm)2, 15 slices of 6 mm, α=40°


1H: TR=13.7ms, TE=6.7ms, pixel bandwidth 96 Hz, acquisition time 52 s
19F: TR=14.5ms, TE=7.1ms, pixel bandwidth 90 Hz, acquisition time 55 s
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Conclusion
Proposed double resonant inductive feeding concept is a smart solution:
- Simultaneous matching with mainly just one tuning element
- Includes broadband cable trap
- Extremely large tuning range
- Same current phase in feeding- and resonator coil

Thank
you
for listening, and
Peter Mazurkewitz,
Thomas Reichel,
Norbert Kuhn
for support!
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