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