Various systems are provided for neck radio frequency (RF) coil assemblies for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, a neck RF coil assembly (400) includes a central RF coil array (312) including a first plurality of RF coils (316) configured to cover a neck of a subject to be imaged, an upper RF coil array (402) including a second plurality of RF coils extending upward from the central RF coil array (312) and configured to cover a lower head region of the subject, and a lower RF coil array (404) including a third plurality of RF coils extending downward from the central RF coil array (312) and configured to cover an upper shoulder region of the subject, wherein each RF coil of the first, second, and third pluralities of RF coils comprises a loop portion (317) comprising two distributed capacitance wire conductors encapsulated and separated by a dielectric material (224).
