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A dedicated 3-ch breast coil for Microwave Tomography at 3T
Xiaoyu Yang1, Thomas Eastlake1, Tsinghua Zheng1, Shireen Geimer2, Timothy Raynolds2, Paul Meaney2, and Keith Paulsen2
1Innovation, Quality Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States, 2Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Combining MR and Microwave Tomography (MT) for breast imaging may provide high sensitivity with an improve specificity. There is no devoted MR coil for the MT application.  A dedicated 3-ch MR coil is proposed for superior MRI imaging quality that enables the future MT MR volunteer evaluation.
Figure 2. the 3-ch coil diagrams and photo
Figure 3. The matching/feeding schematic