Article: Comparisons between the 35 mm quadrature surface resonator at 300 K and the 40 mm high-temperature superconducting surface resonator at 77 K in a 3T MRI imager.
The SNR obtained from different kind of surface resonators.
Temperature (K)
d (mm)
The HTS surface resonator
The QD surface resonator
The copper surface resonator
T = 77 K
ds = 5 mm
SNR = 200
SNR = 88
T = 300 K
ds = 5 mm
SNR = 52
T = 300 K
D = 0 mm
SNR = 139
T = 300 K
D = 5 mm
SNR = 86
The distance between the HTS surface resonator/copper surface resonator and the phantom is d, while the distance between the QD surface resonator and the phantom is D.
