Enhanced decoupling of MRI RF coil pairs during tuning of MRI RF transmit coil.

摘要

Frequency tuning and coupling capacitances in MRI RF receive coils (14) are typically realized, at least in part, as reverse biased varactor diodes. During RF tuning of the transmit (12) coil (i.e., so as to achieve resonance and matched impedance conditions), at least some if not all of the varactors associated with the receive coil are forward biased so as to simultaneously maximize detuning of the receive coil to resonant frequencies removed as far as possible from that of the transmitter coil being tuned while also then substantially reducing the Q of the receive coil.