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Offset-tuned Bilateral-side Inductively Coupled RF Coils for Preclinical MRI at 15.2 T

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 25, Number 2, 30 Jun 2020, Pages 277-284
Soobum Kim (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University), Han-Joong Kim (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University), Phil Heo (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University), Donghyuk Kim (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University), Won Beom Jung (Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS)), Kyoung-Nam Kim * (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University)
Abstract
A small coverage of magnetic flux density (B1) and its inhomogeneity are intrinsic problems of conventional
surface coils. Therefore, offset-tuned bilateral-side inductively coupled radiofrequency (RF) coils have been specifically
designed to overcome these problems. Herein, we proposed bilateral-sided wireless coils for improving
the B1-field uniformity by simultaneously adding a supplemental secondary coil (s-coil) to the primary coil (pcoil)
in the orthogonal direction. The offset-tuned frequency of the s-coil was evaluated and compared from 0 to
+60 MHz with a +10 MHz interval at the Larmor frequency of the p-coil. Using mathematical EM modeling,
we optimized the +60-MHz offset-tuned s-coil at 15.2 T. Thus, a combined coil configuration with p-coil of 655
MHz and two s-coils of 710 MHz was obtained. This combined coil configuration can overcome the B1-field
inhomogeneity of p-coils in 15.2 T small animal magnetic resonance scanner and can be extended to overcome
the volume coil array inhomogeneity.
Keywords: MRI; RF coil; Inductively coupled coil; Electromagnetic flux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2020.25.2.277
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