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Abstract #0716

Dynamic Multi-Coil Shimming of the Human Brain at 7 Tesla

Christoph Juchem1, Terence W. Nixon1, Scott McIntyre1, Vincent O. Boer2, Douglas L. Rothman1, Robin A. de Graaf1

1MR Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; 2Department of Radiology, UMC, Utrecht, Netherlands


A novel technique for the magnetic field homogenization of the human brain is presented in which shim fields are synthesized by a combination of non-orthogonal basis fields from a set of individually driven, generic coils. First experimental results of dynamic multi-coil (DMC) shimming at 7 Tesla are shown to outperform state-of-the-art zero-to-third order spherical harmonic dynamic shim updating (SH-DSU)

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