There are no texts and few courses offered to teach this material.
Accordingly, the literature on RF coil design is fragmented and confusing. Of the published works, the record of technology development is often incomplete and misleading, accurate referencing and attribution assignment being tantamount to admission of patent infringement in the commercial arena.
Some of this information on coil technologies and applications techniques has been disseminated through the literature, while more of this knowledge has been withheld for competitive or proprietary advantage. Heretofore, much of the know-how of RF coil design is bottled up in various industry and academic laboratories around the world. This RF Coils for MRI handbook is intended to become this reference. To date there is no single reference aimed at teaching the art of applications guided coil design for use in MRI. The need for RF coils in MRI is highly diverse, ranging from large volume coils for full-body imaging, over single- and multi-channel head coils for cranial imaging, to array coils for neck, breast, wrist, and ankle imaging.The content of this volume has been added to eMagRes (formerly Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance) - the ultimate online resource for NMR and MRI. Our research has resulted in a number of application-specific RF coils and resonators capable of obtaining high resolution images in systems up to 7T main field strength. CIS has developed NDE sensing technology as well as Radio Frequency (RF) coils and electronic circuits for pre-clinical and clinical MR scanners. As director of the Center for Imaging and Sensing (CIS), I have concentrated on the exploration of energy/media interactions with emphasis on inspecting critical industrial materials and biological structures. My research focus has been electromagnetic and acoustic nondestructive evaluation (NDE), and for the past 15 years the development of anatomically shaped coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). I started at WPI as an Assistant Professor in August of 1986 after graduating from Colorado State University.
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