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Circularly polarized coil for 1.5 T MRI RF harvesting
Pavel Seregin1, Georgiy Solomakha1, Egor Kretov2, Oleg Burmistrov1, and Alexey Slobozhanyuk1
1The Department of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
In this work, we demonstrate a new circularly polarized (CP) volumetric coil design for energy harvesting in a 1.5 T MRI scanner and evaluated its performance at various locations along the B0 field axis inside the bore and during the different MR pulse sequences.
Figure 1. a) Photo of the prototype of the volumetric harvesting coil and b) its circuit diagram.
Figure 3. Influence of the pulse sequence type on the harvested power at the same Vadj =180 V, with default FA and load resistor 500 Ohm.