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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Nov 19;43(6):1279–1287. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25099

Table 1.

Numerically computed and experimental results comparing the ERC-2L and the ERC-ML coils.

ERC-2L ERC-ML
Simulated B1+ Transmit Efficiency (μT/W0.5) 2.01 ± 1.35 2.04 ± 1.48
Worst-case peak 1g SAR (W/kg) 10.9 16.7
B1+ SAR Efficiency (μT/SAR0.5) 0.61 0.50
SNR (a.u.) 1.46 ± 0.92 1.51 ± 1.07
Experimental B1+ Transmit Efficiency (μT/W0.5) 1.53 ± 0.45 1.64 ± 1.00
SNR (×105 Hz0.5/ml) 5.33 ± 2.56 5.41 ± 2.98