Apparatus and method for decoupling MRI RF coil from selected body portions using passive components

摘要

In an MRI system, a passive conductive RF decoupling structure is disposed about a portion of the volume to be imaged but at a location which is proximate a sub-volume from which MRI RF responses are to suppressed. The passive decoupling structure may be a sheet of conductive material or a shorted loop of conductive material (preferably having a gap in conductivity bridged by RF bypass capacitance so as to suppress lower frequency eddy currents otherwise caused by changing magnetic gradient fields in the MRI system).