Wideblue Contributes to Ground Breaking MRI Scanner Project
Wide Blue 14 January 2021
Leading product design consultancy Wideblue has congratulated its client MR CoilTech on successfully completing the first trial of a novel high-density radiofrequency (RF) head coil technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
The head coil design, a first of its kind, utilizes 16-channel transmit and 96-channel receive RF architecture. The new prototype high-density head coil combines with the NexGen 7T scanner capabilities to enable high-resolution full brain imaging to support studies of the cerebral cortex at an unprecedented microscale resolution — boosting the image resolution by a factor of 20 than current 7T MRI. The project aims to provide new insights into brain disease research.
Wideblue Contributes to Ground Breaking MRI Scanner Project