Figure 6.

Measured and simulated results of the two monopole elements without and with the decoupling element. (A) Measured B₁⁺ maps scaled to angle; (B) Simulated B₁⁺ maps; (C) Measured GRE images; (D) GRE images calculated from simulation; (E) Measured SNR maps. For both measured and simulated results, B₁⁺ maps and GRE images of ICE-decoupled elements were more independent. ICE-decoupled elements have better SNR at the peripheral area with an improvement of about 15% and meanwhile kept similar SNR at the center area of the phantom. The consistency between the simulation and experiment has also demonstrated that the simulation results are reliable.