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A new method for the SNR calculation of radio frequency receive coil arrays for MRI is presented, making use of their magnetic    B 1 \u2212    transmit pattern and the S-parameters of the network. The S-parameters and    B 1 \u2212    fields are extracted from an electromagnetic field solver and are post-processed using our developed model to provide absolute SNR values. The model includes a theory for describing the noise of all components in the receiver chain and the noise figure of a pre-amplifier by a simple passive two-port network. To validate the model, two- and four-element receive coil arrays are investigated. The SNR of the examined arrays is calculated and compared to measurement results using imaging of a saline water phantom in a    3 \u00a0 T    scanner. The predicted values of the model are in good agreement with the measured values. The proposed method can be used to predict the absolute SNR for any receive coil array by calculating the transmit    B 1 \u2212    pattern and the S-parameters of the network. Knowledge of the components of the receiver chain including pre-amplifiers leads to satisfactory results compared to measured values, which proves the method to be a useful tool in the development process of MRI receive coil arrays.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jimaging4050067","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,7]],"date-time":"2018-05-07T03:12:21Z","timestamp":1525662741000},"page":"67","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Radio Frequency Modeling of Receive Coil Arrays for Magnetic Resonance Imaging"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2325-2027","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christopher","family":"Stumpf","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Matthias","family":"Malzacher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lorenz-Peter","family":"Schmidt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"418","DOI":"10.1109\/8.841903","article-title":"Ultimate signal-to-noise-ratio of surface and body antennas for magnetic resonance imaging","volume":"48","author":"Schnell","year":"2000","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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