Transmission line transformer

Details Transmission line transformer Transmission line transformer

1990-07-30

1992-02-25

LaRoche, Eugene R.

Wave transmission lines and networks

Coupling networks

Balanced to unbalanced circuits

333136, 324318, H03H 742

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050917080

ABSTRACT:
A birdcage knee coil operated in quadrature in an NMR imaging system includes a pair of like butterfly coils each formed from a strip transmission line formed on a common dielectric substrate. The pair inputs the quadrature signals created by the birdcage coil to a combiner output circuit. Each butterfly coil of the pair comprises a pair of wings of like area connected by a common transmission line so that currents induced by a magnetic field on the ground conductors of one wing oppose and cancel the currents induced by that field on the ground conductors of the other wing. The transmission line forming each butterfly coil has opposing ground conductors of the same transverse width with a center conductor equally spaced between the ground conductors and a transverse width of about one tenth that of the ground conductors. The pair of coils are arranged symmetrically relative to the birdcage coil to provide an electrically balanced system.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4973908 (1990-11-01), Bottomley et al.
patent: 4992769 (1991-02-01), Oppelt
J. Sevick, "Baluns", Transmission Line Transformers, Publ. by American Radio Relay League, 1987, Chapter 8, pp. 8-1-8-7.
The ARRL Antenna Book, "Transmission Lines", Publ. by The American Radio Relay League, 1974, pp. 115-116.
R. K. Blocksome, "Practical Wideband RF Power Transformers, Combiners, & Splitters", Proceedings--Fexpo Feast, Nov. 10-12, 1986, pp. 1-21.

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