Capacitive versus Overlap Decoupling of Adjacent Radio Frequency Phased Array Coil Elements: An Imaging Robustness Comparison When Sample Load Varies for 3 Tesla MRI

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(a) Coil and phantom setup examples, coils and phantoms are not to scale. (A) 5-ch CD PA coil used for SNR and 1/g-factor map simulations. (B) 5-ch OD PA coil. (C) Axis showing orientation of (A) and (B). (D) Large 2-ch CD PA coil used for the coil element capacitor value variation. (E) Large 2-ch OD PA coil. (F) Axis showing orientation of (D) and (E). (b) 5-ch PA coils used to acquire measurement data. (A) 5-ch CD PA coil. (B) 5-ch OD PA coil.

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