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Abstract #1544

Impact of Coupling on the B1+ Field Produced by a 15-panel Tic-Tac-Toe RF Array

Andrea N Sajewski1, Tales Santini1, Anthony DeFranco1, Tiago Martins1, Jacob Berardinelli1, Howard J Aizenstein1, and Tamer S Ibrahim1
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Synopsis

We investigated the impact of coupling (magnitude and phase) on the B1+ field distribution and intensity of a 30-channel double-rowed Tic-Tac-Toe (TTT) RF array. We found that by changing the coupling of the TTT coil modules, we are able to modify the B1+ distribution from a single channel and how the B1+ field intensity is spread between different Z levels of the 30-channel array. This effect was seen in both simulations and experimental B1+ maps.

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