Sukhoon Oh1, Giuseppe Carluccio2, Christopher M. Collins1
1Center for NMR Research, Radiology, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
In this study, we investigate how the thermal conduction from a transmit surface coil components affects temperature increase in a subject by comparing temperature simulations and experiments at two different coil-sample distances.