Design of Crisscrossed Double-Layer Birdcage Coil for Improving B1 + Field Homogeneity for Small-Animal Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 300 MHz
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We design a crisscrossed double-layer birdcage (DLBC) coil by modifying the coil geometry of a standard single-layer BC (SLBC) coil to enhance the homogeneity of transmitting magnetic flux density (B1 ) along the main magnetic field (B0)-direction for small-animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 300 MHz. The performance assessment of the crisscrossed DLBC coil is conducted by computational analysis with the finitedifference time domain method (FDTD) and compared with SLBC coil in terms of the B1 and the B1 +
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تاریخ انتشار 2015