To date there is no single reference aimed at teaching the art of applications guided coil design for use in MRI. This RF Coils for MRI handbook is intended to become this reference.

Heretofore, much of the know-how of RF coil design is bottled up in various industry and academic laboratories around the world. Some of this information on coil technologies and applications techniques has been disseminated through the literature, while more of this knowledge has been withheld for competitive or proprietary advantage. Of the published works, the record of technology development is often incomplete and misleading, accurate referencing and attribution assignment being tantamount to admission of patent infringement in the commercial arena. Accordingly, the literature on RF coil design is fragmented and confusing. There are no texts and few courses offered to teach this material. Mastery of the art and science of RF coil design is perhaps best achieved through the learning that comes with a long career in the field at multiple places of employment until now.

RF Coils for MRI combines the lifetime understanding and expertise of many of the senior designers in the field into a single, practical training manual. It informs the engineer on part numbers and sources of component materials, equipment, engineering services and consulting to enable anyone with electronics bench experience to build, test and interface a coil. The handbook teaches the MR system user how to safely and successfully implement the coil for its intended application. The comprehensive articles also include information required by the scientist or physician to predict respective experiment or clinical performance of a coil for a variety of common applications. It is expected that RF Coils for MRI becomes an important resource for engineers, technicians, scientists, and physicians wanting to safely and successfully buy or build and use MR coils in the clinic or laboratory. Similarly, this guidebook provides teaching material for students, fellows and residents wanting to better understand the theory and operation of RF coils.

Many of the articles have been written by the pioneers and developers of coils, arrays and probes, so this is all first hand information! The handbook serves as an expository guide for hands-on radiologists, radiographers, physicians, engineers, medical physicists, technologists, and for anyone with interests in building or selecting and using RF coils to achieve best clinical or experimental results


Series Preface xiii

Volume Preface xv

Part A: Surface Coils

1 An Historical Introduction to Surface Coils: The Early Days
Joseph J. H. Ackerman

2 Radiofrequency Coils for NMR: A Peripatetic History of Their Twists and Turns
Eiichi Fukushima

3 Characterization of Multichannel Coil Arrays on the Benchtop
Mark A. Griswold

4 Quadrature Surface Coils
Christopher M. Collins, Andrew G. Webb

5 Double-Tuned Surface Coils
Barbara L. Beck

6 Nested Surface Coils for Multinuclear NMR
Arthur W. Magill, Rolf Gruetter

7 Quadrature Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) Surface Coils
Nikolai I. Avdievich

8 Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) Surface Coils for Extremities
Nikolai I. Avdievich

Part B: Array Coils (with loops)

9 Receiver Loop Arrays
Steven M. Wright

10 Coil Array Design for Parallel Imaging: Theory and Applications
Daniel K. Sodickson, Michael A. Ohliger, Riccardo Lattanzi, Graham C. Wiggins

11 Transceiver Loop Arrays
Randy Duensing

Part C: Volume Coils (with lines)

12 Birdcage Volume Coil Design
Nicola De Zanche

13 Double-Tuned Birdcage Coils: Construction and Tuning
Joseph Murphy-Boesch

14 TEM Transceiver Head Array Coils for Ultra High Magnetic Fields
Gregor Adriany

15 Antennas as Surface Array Elements for Body Imaging at Ultra-high Field Strengths
A. J. E. Raaijmakers, C. A. T. van den Berg

16 TEM Body Coils
J. Thomas Vaughan

17 TEM Arrays, Design and Implementation
Carl Snyder

Part D: Special Purpose Coils

18 Catheter Coils
Ergin Atalar

19 Microcoils
Andrew G. Webb

20 Cryogenic and Superconducting Coils for MRI
Sven Junge

21 Litz Coils for High Resolution and Animal Probes, Especially for Double Resonance
F. David Doty, George Entzminger Jr

Part E: Coil Interface Circuits

22 Receiver Design for MR
David I. Hoult

23 Radiofrequency Power Amplifiers for NMR and MRI
Daniel P. Myer

24 Impedance Matching and Baluns
David M. Peterson

Part F: Coil Design Evaluation and Modeling

25 Radiofrequency MRI Coil Analysis: A Standard Procedure
Rostislav A. Lemdiasov, Reinhold Ludwig

26 Practical Electromagnetic Modeling Methods
Jian-Ming Jin

27 Radiofrequency Fields and SAR for Bird Cages
Tamer S. Ibrahim

28 RF Field Modeling for Double-Tuned Volume Coils
Wanzhan Liu

29 Radiofrequency Fields and SAR for Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) Surface Coils
Can Eyup Akgun

30 TEM Fields and SAR
Jinfeng Tian

31 Millipede Coils
Ernest W. H. Wong

Part G: RF Safety

32 RF Device Safety and Compatibility
John Nyenhuis

33 Radiofrequency Heating Models and Measurements
Devashish Shrivastava, J. Thomas Vaughan

Index