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Abstract #3875

Experimental Comparison of Array Coil Overlap Strategies for Maximal SNR

Tyler Charlton1, Adam Maunder1, B. Gino Fallone1,2, Nicola De Zanche1,2

1Dept. of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2Dept. of Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


Three 8-channel array designs are compared at 3T: a) a gapped array; b) a standard overlapped array with zero mutual inductance between nearest neighbors; and c) a gapped array with mutual-inductance-ing transformers between nearest neighbors. Preamp decoupling was used for all three. The gapped array provided the best SNR performance (respectively 18% and 24% better) since it had the lowest noise covariance.