Abstract #4300

Double Facing Miniaturized Patch Antennas with High Permittivity Plugs

Gangchea Lee¹, Navid Gandji², Seokwon Jung³, Elena Semouchkina², Michael Lanangan⁴, and Thomas Neuberger^1,5

¹Bio Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ²Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, United States, ³Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ⁴Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ⁵Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States

Substituting the conventional Radio Frequency coil (RF coil) with a patch antenna has the potential to increase the magnetic field homogeneity in large Fields Of View (FOV). The homogeneity can be improved even more when two of these antennas are facing each other. The size of the patch antennas needed to be reduced to fit inside the scanner bore to use them as RF coils. This was done via inserting high dielectric material plugs. The two facing patch antennas system was also fabricated and tested.

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