Algorithmic design of coil arrays in MRI is typically considered desirable but computationally intractable. In this work, we demonstrate that it is in fact feasible to programmatically optimize over the design of a coil array to achieve a metric-of-interest, such as slice homogeneity in the transmit field. We build on previous work by employing global optimizers in several of the key steps in the optimization procedure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach via a couple of numerical examples.
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