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A Numerical Study of the Field Dependence of Signal-to-Noise Ratio in High-Field MRI M. E. Kowalski and J.-M. Jin Center for Computational Electromagnetics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 61801-2991 I. Introduction The increasing interest in the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for quantitative spectroscopy, real-time imaging, magnetic resonance angiog- raphy (MRA), and other emerging applications has led to increased effort towards maximizing the available signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from magnetic resonance (MR) systems. A necessary development to enabling a designer to maximize the available SNR is the emergence of an accurate method for its analysis. However, many of the trends in hardware design intended to increase SNR (such as the move towards higher Bo-field strengths) make the analysis of SNR more complicated than in traditional clinical MR systems. Edelstein e t al. [l]pointed out that there is a quantity, termed the intrin- sic SNR (ISNR), which represents a fundamental limit of the performance of an MR system for a given patient/coil configuration. This work, howev- er, used quasi-statics to describe the -field distribution of the transmitter coil and the sensitivity field of the receiver coil. While this is an accurate approach at the frequencies then being considered (up to 21 MH