We designed and built three elliptically arranged 8- and 16-channel transceiver dipole and loop arrays for the human head applications and evaluated the influence of coaxial feed cables on the overall array performance. The influence of coaxial feed cables was evaluated in simulation and compared against actual built arrays in terms of B1+ and SAR efficiency. For all three arrays we consistently observed ~30 % performance reduction compared to the “ideal” coil with no coaxial cables.
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