Bing Wu1, Xiaoliang Zhang2,3
1Coil Engineering, GE Healthcare,
Wauehsha, WI, United States; 2Radiology & Biomedical Imaging,
UCSF; 3UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering,
San Francisco, CA, United States
Transformer or capacitor is often required to electromagnetically decouple the gapped loops, non-adjacent loops, or microstrip resonators in RF coil arrays when conventional coil overlapping is not applicable. In this abstract, we analyze the general L/C decoupling circuits and suggest the use of inductor for decoupling at high fields. Based on the circuit analysis, a new inductive decoupling method is proposed for designing microstrip arrays at high magnetic fields.
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