Abstract #2838

Local SAR Investigations in the Presence of Conductive Media

Craig I. Lawrie¹, Xiaoyu Yang¹, Tsinghua Zheng¹, Matthew Finnerty², Shinya Handa², Hiroyuki Fujita²,³

¹Quality Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; ²Quality Electrodynamics, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; ³Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

The use of a local transmitter coil to reduce local SAR heating is evaluated with regards to MRI imaging in the presence of long conductive media. Simulation results indicate that a local transmitter coil has an SAR advantage due to both smaller electric fields and the ability to fine-tune geometric positioning.