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.
Tx connector.

3

Skyra

Spine array
(integrated)

1

mMR

Spine array
(integrated)

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
Head Coil Manufacturer:
Nova Medical

1

8ch Tx, 8ch Rx
Parallel Transmit Head Coil
Manufacturer:
Rapid Biomedical

1

Tune-Up Head Coil
Manufacturer: Siemens

1

Flex 8ch Tx, 32ch Rx
Nova Parallel Transmit Head Coil
Manufacturer:
Nova Medical

1

8ch Tx, 32ch Rx
Parallel Transmit Body Coil
Manufacturer:
Life Services

1

Flex L7T Dual tuned H/Na
Head coil
1H:  1ch 8-element Tx,
8ch Rx
23Na: 1ch 8-element Tx, 8ch Rx
Manufacturer:
Life Services

1

7 Tesla – Developed in BMEII @Mt Sinai

Coil

Image

Qty

1

8-element 1ch Tx and 8ch Rx Carotid Coil
Manufacturer:
BMEII @Sinai

1

8-element 1ch Tx and 8ch Rx Body Coil
Manufacturer:
BMEII @Sinai

1

1ch Tx and 8ch Rx
7T Rabbit Coil
Manufacturer:
BMEII @Sinai

1

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