Quintuple tuned body resonators and detectors installed at Pisa, Amsterdam and Cambridge

The designs of D2.2 are constructed and interfaced to the 3 MRI systems. The designs are composed of a triple tunable bodycoil integrated in the MRI, where the patient bore gets exchanged, or when RF shield is too close, where a thin layer bodycoil is inserted in the existing tube. The other two frequencies are based on dipole transceiver arrays positioned in a flexible housing around the patient. In these housings another array of triple tuned receivers will be implemented based on the maximum number of channels available on the MRI system (up to a maximum of 32). Siemens, Philips and GE will provide the interface description for connecting the RF coils, the patient tubes as well as the RF amplifiers that drive the bodycoil.