RF Head Coil Design with Improved RF Magnetic Near-Fields Uniformity for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Systems
Higher magnetic field strength in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems offers higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast, and spatial resolution in MR images. However, the wavelength in ultra-high fields (7 tesla and beyond) becomes shorter than the human body at the Larmor frequency with incr...
| Publié dans: | IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques. - 1998. - 62(2014), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 1784-1789 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Langue: | English |
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2014
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| Accès à la collection: | IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques |
| Sujets: | Journal Article B1 field uniformity Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) RF coil Transverse electromagnetic (TEM) resonator |
| Résumé: | Higher magnetic field strength in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems offers higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast, and spatial resolution in MR images. However, the wavelength in ultra-high fields (7 tesla and beyond) becomes shorter than the human body at the Larmor frequency with increasing static magnetic field (B0) of MRI system. At short wavelengths, interference effect appears resulting in non- uniformity of the RF magnetic near-field (B1) over the subject and MR images may have spatially anomalous contrast. The B1 near-field generated by the transverse electromagnetic (TEM) RF coil's microstrip line element has a maximum near the center of its length and falls off towards both ends. In this study, a double trapezoidal shaped microstrip transmission line element is proposed to obtain uniform B1 field distribution by gradual impedance variation. Two multi-channel RF head coils with uniform and trapezoidal shape elements were built and tested with a phantom at 7T MRI scanner for comparison. The simulation and experimental results show stronger and more uniform B1+ near-field with the trapezoidal shape |
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| Description: | Date Revised 29.09.2020 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 0018-9480 |