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@ARTICLE{Ko:861492,
author = {Ko, Yunkyoung and Choi, Chang-Hoon and Shah, N. J. and
Felder, Jorg},
title = {{S}ignal {L}oss {C}ompensation of {RF} {C}rossbar {S}witch
{M}atrix {S}ystem in {U}ltra-{H}igh {F}ield {MRI}},
journal = {IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
issn = {1940-9990},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {IEEE},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-01953},
pages = {1458 - 1466},
year = {2018},
abstract = {With the increased commercial availability of high channel
count MR coil arrays and the associated higher number of
plugs in the patient bed, it has become a common practice to
include switch matrices in the receive path of MR systems.
These allow the arbitrary routing of a signal from any plug
to any receiver in the console. While switch matrices are
standard in systems at clinical field strength and have been
developed for systems operating up to 4T, they have not yet
been implemented at ultra-high field (UHF). Here, we present
a switch matrix suitable for operation at UHF. Crossbar
switches, which are the most frequently employed forms of a
switch matrix, use RF switches to connect horizontal input
lines with the desired vertical output line. This leaves
transmission line stubs of variable length physically
connected with the selected signal path, potentially
resulting in elevated signal losses. While this can be
tolerated at low frequencies, and only needs partial
compensation at intermediate frequencies (4T), a full
compensation is required at UHF. In this study, an RF
crossbar switch, which uses switchable compensation elements
in both horizontal and vertical transmission lines, was
implemented for a 9.4T MRI scanner. The prototype developed
was evaluated for single channel and multichannel receive
performance and benchmarked against a fixed wire
connection.},
cin = {INM-4 / INM-11 / JARA-BRAIN},
ddc = {620},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-11-20170113 /
$I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$},
pnm = {573 - Neuroimaging (POF3-573)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-573},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30235148},
UT = {WOS:000455190000026},
doi = {10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2871498},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/861492},
}