Abstract #0354

A Patient-adjustable MRI coil for implant-friendly imaging of deep brain stimulation: Design, construction, and patient-specific numerical simulations

Laleh Golestanirad¹, Boris Keil¹, Maria Ida Iacono², Giorgio Bonmassar¹, Leonardo M Angelone², Cristen LaPierre¹, and Lawrence L Wald¹

¹Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, ²Division of Biomedical Physics, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Recently we presented the feasibility study of using a reconfigurable DBS-friendly head coil, composed of a patient-adjustable rotating birdcage transmitter, and an integrated 32-channel receiver array to reduce SAR during imaging of patients with deep brain stimulation implants. Here we introduce the first prototype of such coil system, and present results of finite element simulations on patient-derived numerical models of realistic DBS lead trajectories, which characterize its SAR reduction performance.

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