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Abstract #3037

Towards Direct B1 Based Local SAR Estimation

Martijn Anton Hendrik Cloos1, Giorgio Bonmassar1

1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, M.A., USA


In contrast to numerical SAR simulations, a B1 based method for SAR estimation is presented. Closed form solutions for the dielectric properties and axial-electric field component are derived from the Maxwells equations. The method is applied to simulated B1-images of a human head and compared to the simulated SAR.

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