Design and construction of an optimized transmit/receive hybrid birdcage resonator to improve full body images of medium-sized animals in 7T scanner

• Nibardo Lopez Rios ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nibardo.lopez-rios@polymtl.ca

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Sainte-Justine Hospital University Center, Montreal, Canada, Medical Biophysics Center, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4791-8260

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• Philippe Pouliot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Konstantinos Papoutsis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Alexandru Foias,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Nikola Stikov,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Frédéric Lesage,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada

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• Mathieu Dehaes,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sainte-Justine Hospital University Center, Montreal, Canada, Department of Radiology, Radio-oncology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

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• Julien Cohen-Adad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

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