Francesco Padormo1, Shaihan J. Malik1,
Giel Mens2, Jo V. Hajnal1
1Robert Steiner MRI
Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC
Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London,
London, United Kingdom; 2Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands
There is growing interest in parallel transmit architectures and in the use of low cost systems that may display significant non-linearity in response. We describe a system level calibration approach that can generate a full set of calibration tables for multi-channel RF systems. The method is simple to set up and provides compensation for frequency drifts during the calibration process.