RF coils: A practical guide for nonphysicists

B Gruber, M Froeling, T Leiner… - Journal of magnetic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Radiofrequency (RF) coils are an essential MRI hardware component. They directly impact
the spatial and temporal resolution, sensitivity, and uniformity in MRI. Advances in RF …

The state-of-the-art and emerging design approaches of double-tuned RF coils for X-nuclei, brain MR imaging and spectroscopy: A review

CH Choi, SM Hong, J Felder, NJ Shah - Magnetic resonance imaging, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing availability of ultra-high field MRI systems, studying non-proton nuclei (X-
nuclei), such as 23 Na and 31 P has received great interest. X-nuclei are able to provide …

Self-decoupled radiofrequency coils for magnetic resonance imaging

X Yan, JC Gore, WA Grissom - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Arrays of radiofrequency coils are widely used in magnetic resonance imaging to achieve
high signal-to-noise ratios and flexible volume coverage, to accelerate scans using parallel …

Kerker effect in ultrahigh-field magnetic resonance imaging

M Dubois, L Leroi, Z Raolison, R Abdeddaim… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Ultrahigh-field (UHF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems are getting a lot of
attention as they ensure high intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio resulting in higher spatial and …

A review of parallel transmit arrays for ultra-high field MR imaging

CH Choi, A Webb, S Orzada… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel transmission (pTX) techniques are required to tackle a number of challenges, eg,
the inhomogeneous distribution of the transmit field and elevated specific absorption rate …

Metamaterial combining electric-and magnetic-dipole-based configurations for unique dual-band signal enhancement in ultrahigh-field magnetic resonance imaging

R Schmidt, A Webb - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (MRI and MRS) are both widely used
techniques in medical diagnostics and research. One of the major thrusts in recent years has …

High-Q metasurface signal isolator for 1.5 T surface coil magnetic resonance imaging on the go

Q Ren, Y Lang, Y Jia, X **ao, Y Liu, X Kong, R **… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The combination of surface coils and metamaterials remarkably enhance magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) performance for significant local staging flexibility. However, due …

Radiofrequency coils for 7 Tesla MRI

O Kraff, HH Quick - Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Radiofrequency (RF) coils are an essential part of the magnetic resonance (MR) system. To
exploit the inherently higher signal-to-noise ratio at ultrahigh magnetic fields (UHF) …

Analysis of high impedance coils both in transmission and reception regimes

MSM Mollaei, CC Van Leeuwen… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Theory of a high impedance coil (HIC)-a cable loop antenna with a modified shield-is
comprehensively discussed for MRI application in both transmitting and receiving regimes …

Water-tunable highly sub-wavelength spiral resonator for magnetic field enhancement of MRI coils at 1.5 T

E Motovilova, S Sandeep, M Hashimoto… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), several studies have demonstrated that the
metamaterial-based structures can effectively improve the sensitivity, and thus the signal-to …