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Design of Broadband T/R Switch for Magnetic Resonance

  • Shou-quan YAO ,
  • Jun-cheng XU ,
  • Ming SHEN ,
  • Bing-wen HU ,
  • Yi-qiao SONG ,
  • Yu JIANG
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  • 1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
    2. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charleston, Massachusetts 02129, USA

Received date: 2021-03-10

  Online published: 2022-03-02

Abstract

Transmit/receive (T/R) switch is used to switch the transmission and reception channels in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, which is required high isolation of high-power signals and low insertion loss of NMR signals. In addition, the general narrowband T/R switch is no longer applicable in broadband magnetic resonance spectrometer. This paper presents a positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) diode-based T/R switch design with low insertion loss (less than 1 dB), high isolation of high-power signals (more than 75 dB) and short switching time (1 μs) in broadband (10~100 MHz). Substituting the broadband T/R switch for the narrowband T/R switch of the general probe, the NMR signals of hydrogen and fluorine nuclei at two different frequencies were measured on a 0.5 T NMR spectrometer, which verified the broadband performance of the T/R switch.

Cite this article

Shou-quan YAO , Jun-cheng XU , Ming SHEN , Bing-wen HU , Yi-qiao SONG , Yu JIANG . Design of Broadband T/R Switch for Magnetic Resonance[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2022 , 39(1) : 115 -122 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20212895

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