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Abstract #4907

Anatomically Detailed Human Head Phantom for MR Testing Purposes

Sossena Wood 1 , Narayanan Krishnamurthy 1 , Yujuan Zhao 1 , Shailesh Raval 1 , Tiejun Zhao 2,3 , J. Andy Holmes 4 , and Tamer Ibrahim, PhD 1

1 Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2 Siemens Medical System, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 3 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 4 Swanson Center for Product Innovation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

This research was performed because there are several issues experienced at higher field strengths that hinder its clinical potential resulting in a concern of the radiofrequency (RF) power absorption in tissue and local temperature rising. These concerns, mainly safety, are evaluated through electromagnetic simulations that are compared to phantoms. However, most phantoms are not realistic nor comparable to the anatomical detail of a human head.

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