A Modelling Study of a Hybrid Loop-Strip Coil Structure for Multichannel Transceive Breast Array Coil

Yu Li¹, Feng Liu¹, Jin Jin¹, Ewald Weber¹, BingKeong Li¹, Hua Wang¹, Stuart Crozier¹

Because of the specific position of a patients breast related to the B0 field of a horizontal clinical MRI scanner, it is challenging to use conventional equal structured loop coils to induce a desired homogenous B1 field. More importantly, in the anterior-posterior area of the breast, little or no signal can be received by a loop coil. This work presented a loop-strip hybrid transceive phased array breast coil design. The new design can offer improvement to the B1 field in the anterior-posterior area of the breast, which is difficult to achieve by using a loop-only breast coil.