Evaluation of Capacitive and Transformer Decoupling Methods Using in Non-Overlapped Array at 7.0T

Hongbae Jeong¹, Kyoung-Nam Kim¹, Suk-Min Hong¹, Joshua Haekyun Park¹, Myung-Kyun Woo¹, Young-Bo Kim¹, Zang-Hee Cho¹

We have conducted research on comparison between capacitive decoupling network and transformer decoupling methods with 8-channel transceive array. Three coils were desing including hybrid version of two decoupling methods, in terms of SNR and noise correlation matrix on 7T.