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 4

Capacitor value comparison (see Figure 2).

Small (pF)	Cmax/Cmin	Cm1	Cm2	Ct1	Ct2	Cd	Ct/Cd	Cequivalent
Capacitive
(tune Cd)	3.28	137.7	137.7	42.03	42.03	84.75	84.75	∼18.30
(tune Ct)	2.44	137.5	137.5	56.26	56.26	84.75	56.26	∼18.31
Overlap	2.22	144.8	145.3	65.24	65.06	—	—	∼18.91
Large (pF)
(tune Cd)	3.28	69.45	69.45	21.15	21.15	75.00	75.00	∼8.69
(tune Ct)	1.68	68.65	68.65	40.97	40.97	75.00	40.97	∼8.74
Overlap	1.38	69.70	68.60	50.60	50.59	—	—	∼8.84