期刊
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 79, 期 3, 页码 1789-1803出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26803
关键词
dyadic Green's functions; RF coils; parallel imaging; ultimate intrinsic SNR; electric dipoles; coil performance map
资金
- NSF [1453675]
- NIH [R01 EB002568]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1453675] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
PurposePrevious work with body-size objects suggested that loops are optimal MR detectors at low fields, whereas electric dipoles are required to maximize signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at ultrahigh fields (7T). Here we investigated how many loops and/or dipoles are needed to approach the ultimate intrinsic SNR (UISNR) at various field strengths. MethodsWe calculated the UISNR inside dielectric cylinders mimicking different anatomical regions. We assessed the performance of various arrays with respect to the UISNR. We validated our results by comparing simulated and experimental coil performance maps. ResultsArrays with an increasing number of loops can rapidly approach the UISNR at fields up to 3 T, but are suboptimal at ultrahigh fields for body-size objects. The opposite is true for dipole arrays. At 7T and above, 16 dipoles provide considerably larger central SNR than any possible loop array, and minimal g factor penalty for parallel imaging. ConclusionsElectric dipoles can be advantageous at ultrahigh fields because they can produce both curl-free and divergence-free currents, whereas loops are limited to divergence-free contributions only. Combining loops and dipoles may be optimal for body imaging at 3T, whereas arrays of loops or dipoles alone may perform better at lower or higher field strengths, respectively. Magn Reson Med 79:1789-1803, 2018. (c) 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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