Zhangwei Wang1, Jason Jin1, Christopher M. Collins2, Shuren Zhao1, Sukhoon Oh2, Qing X. Yang2, Fraser J. Robb1
1GE Healthcare Coils, Aurora, OH, USA; 2Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA
Although it is common clinical practice to transmit with a large body coil and receive with an array, very few investigations have examined the effect of the receive array on SAR. Here we present numerical calculations showing approximately 10% different in local and whole-body SAR due to the presence of a receive array
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