Patient-Specific SAR Estimation for the 8-Channel Radiative Antenna Array at 7 T Prostate MRI

Ozlem Ipek¹, M de Greef², A Raaijmakers¹, P.R. Luijten³, J. J.W. Lagendijk¹, C.A.T. van den Berg¹

The patient-specific worst-case local SAR with 8 channel radiative antenna array is studied in 3 different patient models, by calculation of the largest eigenvalue of the Q-matrix for each voxel. The models that we used vary both in size and fat/muscle ratio. In this way,the probability of a generic model is investigated for worst-case local SAR estimation of an external surface array. A generic model is not found in 3 models due to huge variance in fat/muscle ratio.