Enhancing surface coil sensitive volume with hybridized electric dipoles at 17.2 T.

Preclinical MR applications at 17.2 T can require field of views on the order of a few square centimeters. This is a challenging task as the proton Larmor frequency reaches 730 MHz.

Wireless coils based on resonant and nonresonant coupled-wire structure for small animal multinuclear imaging.

Earlier work on RF metasurfaces for preclinical MRI has targeted applications such as whole-body imaging and dual-frequency coils. In these studies, a nonresonant loop was used to induce currents into a metasurface that was operated as a passive inductively powered resonator. However, as we show in this study, the strategy of using a resonant metasurface reduces the impact of the loop on the global performance of the assembled coil.