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Passive Tunable RF Leakage Canceller for Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) RF Coils at 1.5T Imaging
Zachary Colwell1, Djaudat Idiyatullin2, Lance DelaBarre2, Thomas Vaughan3, Michael Garwood2, and Sung-Min Sohn1
1School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 3Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) imaging requires high Tx-Rx isolation. This paper presents a passive, four-port, tunable canceller circuit to contribute 40dB of self-interference cancellation without degrading coil matching.
Figure 1: System Photo
Figure 2: System Block Diagram and Circuit