DESCRIPTION

Arterial Spin Labelling is a powerful method for angiography and perfusion measurements without using cotrast agents. Such studies put high demands on the spectrometer and coil setup.

Optimally, a coil package used for this purpose consists of three separate coils - a volume transmit coil combined with a surface receive coil to perform the imaging experiments and one additional separate transmit coil used for spin labelling on the carotids.

RAPID Biomedical has developed such packages both for animal and patient studies.

SPECIFICATION

coil package	transmit volume coil   surface receive coil   spin labelling coil
B0-field strength	1.5 T - 9.4 T
specials	all coils are actively decoupled
required equipment	second proton transmitter