Majority of the installed 7.0T systems have 8-independent transmit channels, therefore additional hardware changes are necessary to fully utilize higher channel count transceiver arrays (i.e. 16-channel loop-dipole body imaging array, 16LD). Here, we investigated three different 8-independent channel phase shimming strategies to drive 16LD and compared against fully independent 16-channel phase-only shimming. 8-independent channel shimming while transmitting power from all 16 array-elements with pre-determined phase difference between loop and dipole elements on the same block causes only about 10% drop in B1+ efficiency compared to 16-independent channel transmit.
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