RF shimming, by means of adjusting the relative amplitudes and phases of the independent transmit channels of a parallel transmit system, is widely used in ultra-high-field imaging to improve transmit homogeneity but has limited capabilities especially for large fields of view. This work designed and tested an 8-channel rotating transceiver array to provide more degrees-of-freedom for both transmission and reception. During transmission, the array achieved a uniform effective transmit magnetic field in a time-multiplexed fashion; during reception, the array provided more unique sensitivity profiles, facilitating higher image SNR. Parallel-imaging-like reconstruction was developed, assisted by a robust self-calibrated sensitivity estimation technique.
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