A theoretical and experimental investigation on a volume coil with slotted end-rings for rat MRI at 7 T.

Objective: A volume coil with squared slots-end ring was developed to attain improved sensitivity for imaging of rat's brain at 7 T.

Material And Methods: The principles of the high cavity resonator for the low-pass case and the law of Biot-Savart were used to derive a theoretical expression of [Formula: see text]. The slotted-end ring resonator showed a theoretical 2.

Experimental development of a petal resonator surface coil.

A surface coil for MRI was designed and built based on the principles of the petal resonator proposed by Mansfield [J Phys D Appl Phys 21 (1988) 1643]. This resonator coil design was named the petal resonator surface (PERES) coil and is composed of an eight-petal coil array and a central circular coil. A minimum separation of three times the petal coil radius is necessary to significantly decrease the mutual inductance.