Abstract #3170
A novel decoupling technique for multiple-row microstrip transceiver array designs
Xinqiang Yan 1,2 , Long Wei 2 , Rong Xue 1 , and Xiaoliang Zhang 3
1
State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive
Science, Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research,
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, Beijing, China,
2
Key
Laboratory of Nuclear Analysis Techniques, Institute of
High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, Beijing, China,
3
Department of
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of
California San Francisco and UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint
Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco,
California, United States
Compared with regular single-row transceiver coil
arrays, multiple-row arrays exhibit larger imaging
coverage and the capability of parallel imaging and
parallel excitation along z-direction. The main
challenge in designing multiple-row microstrip array is
to attain sufficiently decoupling among coil elements
from adjacent rows. In this study, a novel decoupling
technique was proposed to address this problem. Both the
bench test and MR imaging results demonstrate that the
proposed technique could reduce the strong coupling
(-7.9 dB) between microstrip elements from adjacent rows
to a sufficiently small value (-25.3 dB).
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