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Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2021 Aug 16;16(10):4611–4632. doi: 10.1038/s41596-021-00588-0

Table 3.

Recommended receive coils for SC imaging for GE, Philips and Siemens systems.

		Cervical	Thoracic/Lumbar
GE	HD/HDxt	8-ch Cervical Thoracic Lumbar (CTL) array	8-ch CTL array
	PETMR	19-ch Head Neck Unit (HNU) array	14-ch Central Molecular imaging Array (CMA)
	MR750w	16-ch Head Neck Spine (HNS) array	48-ch Geometry Embracing Method Phased Array (GEMPA)
Philips	Achieva	16-ch head/neck/neurovascular or 32-ch head coil	15-ch posterior spine(^**)
Philips	Ingenia(^*)	16-ch head/neck/neurovascular or 32-ch head coil	12-ch posterior array(^**)
Siemens	Trio	12-ch brain + 4-ch neck array + spine array(^**)	Spine array(^**)
	Verio	12-ch brain + 4-ch neck array + spine array(^**)
	Skyra	64-ch head/neck or 20-ch head/neck + spine array(^**)
	Prisma
	Vida

Default coils in the spine generic protocol.

^(*):

(i) posterior spine coil could also be used depending on coverage, (ii) for thoracic/lumbar SC imaging; anterior coil could be used to improve image quality in sequences with anterior-posterior phase-encoding.

^(**):

The relevant elements of the spine array are to be selected depending on the region to cover. When using “auto select” (Siemens) or “SmartSelect” (Philips), elements will be automatically selected based on the slice positioning. It is advised to use it. This table is subject to changes with the evolution of the market.