Lancaster University Emit Group

BIOENGINEERING

Key Facts:

Device

  • Liquid Nitrogen cooled RF coil for high field MRI scanner
  • Multi-element RF transceiver for high field MRI scanner
  • GPGU accelerated MRI pulse optimisation
  • MEMS MRI application

People Applications

  • Ultra high field MRI
  • fMRI
  • Imaging aided Diagnosis

People Involved

  • Five

Why it is so important

One of the ultimate scientific challenges in the 21st century is to understand how the human brain works. Such understanding will yield fundamental insights into the diagnosis and treatment of many degenerative neurological disorders, epilepsy, psychiatric conditions and alcohol/substance abuse disorders.

The latest MRI combined with advanced RF device has recently gained the capabilities to plot human brain neural circuitry. Understanding the altered brain circuitry in populations with different medical complications is vital to finding effective, lasting treatments.

Our Mission

Novel RF hardware development to tackle challenges presented in high field MRI scanner :

  1. the B1 field inhomogeneities
  2. susceptibility artefacts
  3. the high RF power deposition

What We Did

  • Liquid Nitrogen cooled RF coil for high field MRI scanner
  • Multi-element RF transceiver for high field MRI scanner
  • GPGU accelerated MRI pulse optimisation
  • MEMS MRI application

What We Will Do

  • Metamaterial antenna for MRI
  • 3D RF array coil design
  • Simulation guided RF device design