Abstract #4406

Newly Designed Miniaturized Patch Antenna with High Dielectric Material Plugs

Gangchea Lee¹, Navid Pourramzan Gandji², Seokwon Jung³, Elena Semouchkina², Michael Lanagan⁴, and Thomas Neuberger^1,5

¹Bio Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ²Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, United States, ³Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ⁴Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, ⁵Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States

High performance Radio Frequency resonators (RF resonators) produce strong and homogeneous magnetic fields. Due to their large sizes, patch antennas have hardly been considered to be used as RF resonators in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), especially at high fields. In this work, a newly developed miniaturized patch antenna with high dielectric material plugs was designed, simulated, built and tested at 14.1 T. The simulated and experimental magnetic fields were compared to confirm the performance of the fabricated patch antenna as a RF resonator for MRI.

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