Abstract #2159

Effect of the RF Shield on the Mutual Coupling Between Adjacent and Non-Adjacent Array Elements

Andreas Pfrommer¹, Nikolai I Avdievich¹, and Anke Henning^1,2

¹Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Institute for Biomedical Engineering, UZH and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

In this study we investigated the effect of an RF shield on the mutual coupling between adjacent and non-adjacent array elements in a simple model mimicking our previously developed cylindrical eight channel transceiver head array. Both numerical EM simulations and experimental measurements suggest that at 124 MHz and 400 MHz an RF shield can substantially decrease S₁₂ for non-adjacent-array elements.

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