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Abstract #1412

Analysis of preamplifier decoupling effect in MRI coil array with electromagnetic field and RF circuit co-simulation

Ming lu1,2, Bei Zhang3, John C. Gore1,2, and Xinqiang Yan1,2
1Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, 2Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States, 3Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

Preamplifier decoupling is a standard way of suppressing inter-element inductive coupling in MRI receive arrays. A well-known method to evaluate and optimize RF coils before practical fabrication is to use circuit-level and electromagnetic (EM) field-level simulations. However, to be best of our knowledge, currently there is not a solid method to evaluate the preamp decoupling effect with circuitry and EM field analysis. In this work, we used RF circuit and EM co-simulation4 to evaluate the preamplifier decoupling effect and tested it on the conventional coil (LIC) and the recently introduced high impedance coil (HIC).

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