Split coil designs are attractive to provide easy access and tight-fitting for patients. A common split coil uses plug connectors to join the two halves together. But this requires additional mechanical design to ensure a robust and reliable connection. In this work, we propose a novel split array coil for 7T knee imaging where the two halves are electrically isolated from each other and do not need any geometrical constraints such as overlapping. The array comprises mixed self-decoupled loop coils and conventional loop coils, which can be split between the self-decoupled coils because they are intrinsically decoupled. This design also allows their distance to be slightly adjusted for different subjects and adapt to more of the population, while fitting tightly around the anatomy for higher sensitivity.
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