Objective To evaluate a transverse electromagnetic (TEM), a circularly polarized (CP) (birdcage), and a 12-channel phased array head coil at the clinical field strength of B (0) = 3T in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), signal homogeneity, and maps of the effective flip angle alpha.
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Aleksandra Radenovic, Georg Fantner, Vytautas Navikas, Barney Frederick Drake, Helena Miljkovic, Simon Finn Mayer, Sanjin Marion