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

Table 3

Quality factor of the 5-ch CD PA coil and the 5-ch OD PA coil.

	5-ch CD PA coil					5-ch OD PA coil
	QU	QL			QU/QL	QU	QL			QU/QL
S/m; El#	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.9	0.3 (0.6) 0.9	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.9	0.3 (0.6) 0.9
1	192	88	61	49	2.2 (3.1) 3.9	160	74	55	45	2.2 (2.9) 3.6
2	173	81	54	43	2.1 (3.2) 4.0	140	66	48	40	2.1 (2.9) 3.5
3	173	80	60	51	2.2 (2.9) 3.4	140	76	56	49	1.8 (2.5) 2.9
4	183	78	55	47	2.4 (3.3) 3.9	165	74	50	40	2.2 (3.3) 4.1
5	185	85	59	49	2.2 (3.1) 3.8	160	84	60	46	1.9 (2.7) 3.5

Note. Measurements made on completed coils.