Wei Luo1,
2, Giuseppe Carluccio3, Zhipeng Cao4, 5,
Yang X. Qing1, Christopher Michael Collins, 13
1Radiology,
The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 2Engineering
Science & Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
PA, United States; 3Radiology, New York University, New York, NY,
United States; 4Radiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey,
PA, United States; 5Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA, United States
Effects of high dielectric material (HDM), that has a size larger than the coil element of a parallel receive array, are theoretically studied at 3T. The results suggest that the gain from receive sensitivity of the array brought by the HDM overcomes the enhanced g-factor, which can promise to improve signal-to-noise ratio even when the HDM has a size which is larger than the coil element of a parallel receive array.