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Abstract #2690

Mitigation of Inductive Coupling in Array Coils by Wideband Port Matching

Markus Vester1, Stephan Biber2, Robert Rehner2, Graham Wiggins3, Ryan Brown3, Daniel Sodickson3

1HIM MR PLM SD HW, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 2HIM MR PLM HW, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 3Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, United States

We suggest a method for mitigating the effects of coil coupling. It is based on a wideband matching technique which can be implemented by a simple circuit modification. The reduced effective reflection will result in less degradation of preamp noise figure in a receive array, and in lower power loss in the transmitter isolators in a parallel transmit system.

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