The state-of-the-art and emerging design approaches of double-tuned RF coils for X-nuclei, brain MR imaging and spectroscopy: A review

CH Choi, SM Hong, J Felder, NJ Shah - Magnetic resonance imaging, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing availability of ultra-high field MRI systems, studying non-proton nuclei (X-
nuclei), such as 23 Na and 31 P has received great interest. X-nuclei are able to provide …

High‐performance radiofrequency coils for 23Na MRI: brain and musculoskeletal applications

GC Wiggins, R Brown, K Lakshmanan - NMR in Biomedicine, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
23Na RF coil design for brain and MSK applications presents a number of challenges,
including poor coil loading for arrays of small coils and SNR penalties associated with …

Sodium MR imaging detection of mild Alzheimer disease: preliminary study

EA Mellon, DT Pilkinton, CM Clark, MA Elliott… - American Journal of …, 2009 - ajnr.org
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There is significant interest in the development of novel
noninvasive techniques for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) and tracking its …

An improved trap design for decoupling multinuclear RF coils

M Meyerspeer, ES Roig, R Gruetter… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging require a
radiofrequency probe capable of transmitting and receiving at the proton and non‐proton …

Dual-Tuned Coaxial-Transmission-Line RF Coils for Hyperpolarized 13C and Deuterium 2H Metabolic MRS Imaging at Ultrahigh Fields

K Payne, Y Zhao, AA Bhosale… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Information on the metabolism of tissues in healthy and diseased states plays a
significant role in the detection and understanding of tumors, neurodegenerative diseases …

Receivers for multifrequency wireless power transfer: Design for minimum interference

Z Pantic, K Lee, SM Lukic - … of Emerging and Selected Topics in …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inductive (or wireless) power transfer is proving to be an effective way to deliver power over
short distances in a wide range of applications. Frequently, there is a need to deliver power …

A novel metamaterial-inspired RF-coil for preclinical dual-nuclei MRI

A Hurshkainen, A Nikulin, E Georget, B Larrat… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In this paper, we propose, design and test a new dual-nuclei RF-coil inspired by wire
metamaterial structures. The coil operates as a result of resonant excitation of hybridized …

Design and test of a double-nuclear RF coil for 1H MRI and 13C MRSI at 7 T

O Rutledge, T Kwak, P Cao, X Zhang - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2016 - Elsevier
RF coil operation at the ultrahigh field of 7 T is fraught with technical challenges that limit the
advancement of novel human in vivo applications at 7 T. In this work, a hybrid technique …

Dual‐frequency resonant coil design for low‐γ X‐nuclear and proton magnetic resonance imaging at ultrahigh fields

G Zhang, W Zhu, X Li, XH Zhu, W Chen - NMR in Biomedicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐γ X‐nuclear MRS and imaging have played a key role in studying metabolism and
physiopathology, especially at ultrahigh fields. We design and demonstrate a novel and …

A monopole/loop dual-tuned RF coil for ultrahigh field MRI

X Yan, R Xue, X Zhang - Quantitative imaging in medicine and …, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Proton and heteronuclear MRI/MRS using dual-tuned (DT) coils could provide both
anatomical and metabolic images without repositioning the subject. However, it is …