Bing Wu1, Yong Pang1, Chunsheng
Wang1, Daniel Vigneron1,2, Xiaoliang Zhang1,2
1Radiology&Biomedical Imaging,
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2UCSF/UC
Berkeley Joint Group Program in Bioengineering, CA, United States
Element-tilted
transceiver array was proposed for ultra-high field human studies. An
8-channel microstrip and an 8-ch loop array were fabricated for human knee at
7T. In those arrays, each element was tilted with a certain angle for
achieving sufficient decoupling without using dedicated decoupling networks.
Our result showed that decoupling was significantly improved (better than
18dB) for both arrays, and the B1 field is also increased (better than 20%)
in the imaging region for the microstrip array compared with non-tilted case.
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