Design and first implementation of wireless square-shaped transmission line resonators in 1 H MRI for small animal studies.

Autor: Gulyaev MV; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia. Electronic address: gulyaev@physics.msu.ru., Protopopov A; P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia., Pavlova OS; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia. Electronic address: ofleurp@mail.ru., Anisimov NV; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia. Electronic address: anisimovnv@mail.ru., Pirogov YA; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) [J Magn Reson] 2022 Jun; Vol. 339, pp. 107216. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107216
Abstrakt: This work is dedicated to the development of a novel design for wireless transmission line resonators (TLRs). The TLRs are often considered as circular-shaped coils made up of two conductive circuits separated by a dielectric layer. We propose a square-shaped TLR design, wherein the coil has two square turns with two symmetrical gaps on each of the conductive layers, and the latter are rotated relative to each other by 90°. The calculation error of the resonant frequency of the square-shaped TLRs is no more than ∼3% of the measured value. The effectiveness of the square-shaped TLR design was evaluated in comparative 1 H MRI studies to conventional wireless square loop of the same resonant frequency and with the same-sized inner square of the TLR. The Bruker birdcage was used as a transceiver and as inductively coupled with the wireless coils. We found that the performance of the square-shaped TLR and the square loop is comparable, but the B 1 + -field generated by the TLR has a wider distribution profile. It was reflected in rat brain studies, when some structures of rat head were not captured by the square loop. Comparative experiments with a standard circular-shaped TLR showed that a signal is predominantly concentrated inside the inner turn of the TLRs. The proposed TLR design can be a promising path to be explored, especially for scanning small objects of study, when the scan area is comparable to the size of the rigid lumped capacitors.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: