RF Coil Lab
The RF Coil Laboratory in BMEII was initially established in 2010. This fully equipped electronics lab is available for RF coil building and troubleshooting.
The lab is equipped with a vector network analyzer, oscilloscopes, a circuit board printer, a 3D printer, a signal generator, DC power supplies, as well as other standard electronics equipment.
BMEII core staff, trainees, and faculty have produced numerous custom RF coils and components for basic and translational research projects. These include coils for high resolution imaging at 7T of the human cervical spine cord, brainstem, carotid arteries, and body, as well as a dedicated coil for rabbit cardiac imaging. Recently, a passive wireless RF array for enhancement of RF fields in the central nervous system was designed, prototyped, and tested in the facility.
In addition to RF hardware, users have also develop mechanical and electronic accessories that are utilized for specific experiments in the high magnet field environment of the MRI scanners.
Coil Inventory
3 Tesla (mMR, Research Skyra, Clinical Skyra)
Abbreviations: Tx (transmit), Rx (receive)
Note: Many 7T coils have multiple transmit elements connected in a fixed amplitude/phase relationship to a single transmit channel. For these coils, the number of driven elements is given, but “1ch Tx” is also noted. For parallel transmit coils, the number of transmit channels is noted.
Coil | Image | Qty | System Compatible |
Flex Connector (Verio Connector) |  | 1 | mMR,Skyra with converter box |
Flex Connector (Skyra Connector) |  | 2 | Skyra |
Loop coils (11 cm, 7 cm, 4 cm) |  | 1 (each) | mMR or Skyra with appropriate Flex connector |
Flex Large (has the biograph designation for attenuation |  | 1 | mMR |
Flex Small |  | 1 | mMR |
Flex Large | Nominally same as above for mMR | 2 | Skyra |
Flex Small | Nominally same as above for mMR | 2 | Skyra |
Head/neck 20-ch (2 Verio connectors) |  | 1 | mMR, Skyra possibly with 2 converter boxes (need coil file also) |
Head/neck 20-ch (direct connectors) |  | 1 | Skyra (research) |
Head/neck 20-ch | No picture - similar to above | 1 | Skyra (clinical) |
Knee coil (15-ch) Note: The plastic legs do not fit snuggly in the mMR bed; use a cushion to raise the coil. |  | 1 | mMR, Skyra with 2 converter boxes |
Body matrix array (6-ch) |  | 3 | mmR |
Body matrix array (18-ch) One array is shared with clinical. |  | 3 | Skyra |
Verio to Skyra converter boxes - nine pins, equal up to 18 channels per box. |  | 3 | Skyra |
Spine array | 1 | mMR | |
Spine array | 1 | Skyra | |
Tx channel in Verio-to-Skyra converter only. Picture shows 4-ch flex connector, converter box, single channel loop, flex connector plug. |  | ||
Available plugs | Modified TIM: 4 x 8-ch Verio plugs around head; 2 x 8-ch Verio plugs at feet; plus 2 x 8-ch Verio plugs for the spine array | mmR | |
Available plugs | TIM 4G: 2 x | Skyra |
7 Tesla
Coil | Image | Qty |
1ch Tx, 32ch Rx |  | 1 |
8ch Tx, 8ch Rx |  | 1 |
Tune-Up Head Coil |  | 1 |
Flex 8ch Tx, 32ch Rx |   | 1 |
8ch Tx, 32ch Rx |  | 1 |
Flex L7T Dual tuned H/Na |  | 1 |
7 Tesla – Developed in BMEII @Mt Sinai
Coil | Image | Qty |
 | 1 | |
8-element 1ch Tx and 8ch Rx Carotid Coil |  | 1 |
8-element 1ch Tx and 8ch Rx Body Coil |  | 1 |
1ch Tx and 8ch Rx |  | 1 |
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