RF Chain- TX/RX

Pankaj Dubey
Date: 14-Apr-2020
 Agenda

• RF wave
• RF Amplifier and types
• RF Chain (TX/RX, Safety & Tunning)
• Hardware
• Calibration
• Preparation Phase
• Expert tool on RF chain Diagnosis

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What is RF
 RF stands for Radio Frequency
 RF Pulse characteristics
• Wavelength(m)
• Frequency(Hz)
• Time(t)
• Phase (Փ)
• Amplitude(A)
• It is an electromagnetic pulse

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RF Amplifier Type

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 Solid State RF Amplifier

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 RF Chain Concept

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RF Transmit Chain
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 Single Transmit Concept

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RF 1TX- CDAS/MRX

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RF 1TX- CDAS/dStream

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RF 1TX- DDAS/dStream

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RF 1TX- DDAS/dMRX

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 RF Chain – Multi Transmit Concept

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RF 2TX- CDAS/MRX(dMRX)

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RF 2TX- DDAS/MRX(dMRX)

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RF Receive Chain
 Digitization

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 Far Digitization
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FACE R System (DAS) STRUCTOR
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Mid Digitization
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Near Digitization
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 CDAS-Analog

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 DDAS- Analog

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 CDAS-dStream

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 DDAS-dStream

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 RF Chain – RX (CDAS-Analog)

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 RF Chain – RX (DDAS-dStream)

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RF TX/RX Chain Hardware
 RF TXR PCB

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 RF TCI PCB

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RF Amplifier

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 RF TR Switch

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 QDD

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 Hybrid Box

B1
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 QIB

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 QBC 1.5T Achieva/Multiva

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 QBC 3T Achieva

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 QBC Ingenia

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 PFEI MRX

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 PFEI TFINT

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 SBM

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 CDAS RX

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 CDAS RX

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RF Safety
 PMU

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 Pickup Coil

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 Receive Chain(Safety)

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 RF Chain Tuning

How
 Transmit a test signal via tune coil in QBC
 Receive with connected receive coils.

Why
 Checked the resonance frequency of some analog RF RX coils
 Calibrate the RXE circuits of the digital RF RX coil.

When
 Automatically for every scan
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 RF Chain -1.5T(Tuning)

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 RF Chain – 3T(Tuning)

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 RF Chain - Tuning

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RF Adjustment
RF TX- Calibration

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RF TX- Calibration

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 If Max kW and PMU fails – use RF Load at RF Out or in RF
Transmit chain and verify the Max kW and PMU results.
50 dB can be used only in 1.5T and not in 3T
70 dB can be used both in 1.5T and 3T

50dB 70dB
 RF Amplifier General Test
 RF Amplifier Info overview
 RF Amplifier gain and Linearity test
 RF Pulse droop test
 RF TX Stability Test
 Body coil TX verification
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 Transmit Stability
• This test checks the stability of the RF Transmit Chain by sending high
Power RF pulses through RF AMP – TRSW – Hybrid - QBC
• generated RF field is picked up by the pickup Coil – MRX and Receiver.

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RF RX- Test/Calibration
For CDAS system
 QBC Verification Test RX
 Coil ID and Malfunction test
 RX attenuator and INL calibration
 RF RX path Test A/B

dStream System
 dStream Selftest
 SBM Self test
 PSU Selftest
 dStream network monitoring

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Preparation phases R5
 Preparation starts !

CI: Coil identification

DC: DC Fixed Correction (DC Phase)
RX: COIL CoarseFine calibration
FF: Fast Frequency determination
CL: perform control loop calibration
RCU: perform RF circulator check
VSWR: perform VSWR check
FRC: Receiver correction
TM: Tuning & Matching preparation phase
PU: perform pick-up coil optimization
PO: perform power optimization
PMU: 1H
F0:F0 Determination
AS: Automatic shimming
PW: Patient Width preparation phase
RG: Receiver gain Optimization
NOISE: noise level determination (NS Phase)
PREPDUR: all: took 6399 msec
Preparation ready, now starting scan itself

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 CI: coil identification

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 DC: DC Fixed Correction (DC Phase)

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TM: Tuning and Matching Preparation (TM Phase)

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PU: perform pick-up coil optimization

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PO: perform power optimization

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F0: F0 Determination

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RG: Receiver gain Optimization

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NOISE: noise level determination (NS Phase)

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 Errors in Preparation Phase

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Expert tool RF chain Diagnosis
RF Switching
Important Points to be remember for the Procedure;
 Always Put 3000 CC / 5000CC bottle inside Magnet Bore !
 Never Exceed the RF Power Beyond 5000W !
 Switch OFF all the RF Cage Lights to see the Spark in QBC

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Basic Parameter

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 Expert Tools(RF Pulse of 225 Watt at t=10mSec) M1

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 Expert Tools (RF Pulse of 225 Watt at t=10mSec) M3

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 Expert Tools RF Chain Diagnosis

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 Expert Tools (RF Pulse of 225 Watt at t=10mSec) M2

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