Vitaliy Zhurbenko1, Juan Diego Sánchez Heredia1, Wenjun Wang1, and Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen1
1Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
1Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
In this work, a design of an 8-element
ultra-flexible array for 13C imaging is presented. The design is
based on a compact low-noise preamplifier and includes 13C/1H
active and passive decoupling. Due to flexibility, the array is easily adoptable
to different parts of the body.
Fig.
4. (a) Photograph
of the array with cover removed; (b) measured SNR of the element as a function
of edge-to-edge distance to the neighbor element; (c) photograph of the imaging setup.
Fig.
3. Impedances
at the input terminals of the matching and decoupling circuit (normalized to impedance
of the coil Zc).
