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Geometry; Tuning; Safety; Nonhomogeneous media; Load modeling; Magnetic resonance imaging; Power measurement
Abstract:
We investigated how performance trade-off depends on dual-row transmit array geometry, position of a head inside the array and array tuning condition. A clear winner was not found. For overlapped arrays, different tuning conditions resulted in larger peak-to-peak variation for CP excitation, but B1+v decrease was as a bit less for excitations that minimized IB1+v as compared with nonoverlapped arrays. For non-overlapped array the safety excitation efficiency was better if the distance between the crown of the head and the end of the array was small.