title: In vivo MRI using liquid nitrogen cooled phased array coil at 3.0 T.
abstract: A liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooled dual-channel array coil was designed and built for use on a 3.0-T whole-body scanner. In vivo imaging of a volunteer's fingers and imaging of a deceased mouse and oil phantom were performed using the LN2 cooled array and a similar room-temperature coil. Imaging results showed that the LN2 cooled array provides a signal-to-noise ratio gain of up to 240% as compared with its room-temperature counterpart. LN2 cooled arrays may be useful for high-resolution clinical imaging of joints, skin, eyes and peripheral vessels as well as for biomedical imaging of small animals in human disease modeling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. edmund_kwok@urmc.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Wingchi E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Kwok
authors.forename: Zhigang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: You
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D051379:Mice; D009584:Nitrogen; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D009584:Nitrogen