In this approach, we present an electronically tunable surface coil in combination with a high impedance broadband LNA for X-nuclei MRI experiments with a bandwidth between 34MHz and 104MHz. The performance of the approach was evaluated by comparison with a state of the art LNA / surface coil reference setup for hydrogen and fluorine imaging. The resulting SNR reduction was less than 4% and a mean value and standard deviation of the relative error of the sensitivity map between the reference setup and the proposed setup of µ=0.4% and σ=1.4% was observed.
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