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Abstract #4412

Parallel Transmit Pulse Design with Implant-Friendly Modes

Yigitcan Eryaman1, 2, Bastien Gurin3, Elfar Adalsteinsson4, 5, Lawrence L. Wald2, 5

1Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; 2Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States; 3Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; 4Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; 5Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


8 channel transmit array is used to reduce the SAR around a generic implant model in a uniform phantom. For this purpose, implant friendly modes of the transmit array are generated. Using these modes, the optimum least square 3-spokes pulse design solution is calculated with an optimization approach which explicitly constrains both global and local SAR.