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A Novel MRI RF Receiving Network Transformer for Parallel Imaging

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Collaborator to work with NINDS in the development, manufacture and commercialization of Magnetic Resonance (MR) RF Coil array that greatly increases the signal to noise ratio in MR imaging by inductively decoupling the RF coils from one another.

• MR imaging of humans, including imaging of brain
• Functional imaging of Humans and animals
• Allows for increased flexibility of coil design including geometries that require array with overlapping receiver coil loops.
• Can provide high level of mutual inductance decoupling within coils in the array.
• Isolates the grounds from coil to coil, and cancels all ground loops related to the coil array.
• Greatly increases the signal to noise ratio in MR imaging
  

Patent Status:  U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/789,934 filed March 30, 2006

Contact Information:
John D. Hewes, Ph.D.,
Technology Transfer Center, NCI
Phone:  301-435-3121
E-mail:  Hewesj@mail.nih.gov

Reference #:  329 MM

Updated 10/29/2007