The work examines the workflow of using commercially available software for electromagnetic modelling and validation of a transceiver array coil operating at 298 MHz for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy at 7 T. The coneshaped, tight-fit parallel transmit head array consists of two rows with eight loop coils per row and transmits two distinct spatial distributions by means of B 1 shimming. Considerations for finite-difference time-domain simulation setup and post-processing with circuit-domain co-simulation are examined, as is the generation of virtual observation points suitable for online safety monitoring.
Keywords: FDTD; RF shimming; circuit co-simulation; computational electromagnetics; magnetic resonance imaging; parallel transmission; radiofrequency coil; virtual observation points.