. In this paper, an approach to the design of hemispherical breast RF coil array is proposed. The target field method is applied to find the current density distribution on the hemisphere surface, which induces a homo.... In this paper, an approach to the design of hemispherical breast RF coil array is proposed. The target field method is applied to find the current density distribution on the hemisphere surface, which induces a homogeneous magnetic field in a hemispherical volume. The components of current density are expanded into Fourier series, and the highly ill-conditioned character of the linear equation related to Fourier coefficients is solved using the Tikhonov regularization method with a minimum curvature penalty function. The winding pattern was acquired using the stream function technique. The results indicate that a simple winding pattern with homogeneous magnetic field can be obtained through manually selecting the penalty factor.展开更多
文摘. In this paper, an approach to the design of hemispherical breast RF coil array is proposed. The target field method is applied to find the current density distribution on the hemisphere surface, which induces a homogeneous magnetic field in a hemispherical volume. The components of current density are expanded into Fourier series, and the highly ill-conditioned character of the linear equation related to Fourier coefficients is solved using the Tikhonov regularization method with a minimum curvature penalty function. The winding pattern was acquired using the stream function technique. The results indicate that a simple winding pattern with homogeneous magnetic field can be obtained through manually selecting the penalty factor.
