A novel transceiver 8Tx/16Rx coil array was simulated and developed for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) in humans at 7T. The developed cardiac coil array consists of two independent parts, the semi-curved anterior array and the flat posterior array, each array composed of identical 8-elements. An optimization routine has been developed in MATLAB to find the optimal phases for B1+-field homogeneity with minimal local SAR values within the Duke and Ella human models. RF-shimming improves the B1+-field homogeneity by 30% and 46% for Duke and Ella, respectively. The novel cardiac pTx array has higher Tx-efficiency and flexibility in RF-shimming compared to the 1Tx commercial coil.
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