Single circuit ladder resonator quadrature surface RF coil

Details Single circuit ladder resonator quadrature surface RF coil Single circuit ladder resonator quadrature surface RF coil

1997-04-09

1999-04-27

Arana, Louis

Electricity: measuring and testing

Particle precession resonance

Spectrometer components

324318, G01V 300

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058983066

ABSTRACT:
A single-circuit quadrature surface coil is formed from two ladder resonator coils and includes a first mode circuit path for detecting or generating magnetic flux in a vertical axis from a body under investigation and a second mode circuit path for detecting or generating magnetic flux in a parallel axis, with the first mode and second mode currents 90 degrees out of phase. The surface coil, which supports two resonance current modes for quadrature operation on only one single coil conductor structure, provides a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a good B.sub.1 homogeneity over the imaging volume. This coil alone may be used either for both transmitting and receiving RF signals or for detecting RF signals as "receive only." This coil is well suited for imaging the human neck, spine and heart.

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