Abstract #2240

Experimental evaluation of heating and SAR reduction with a dielectric insert at 3T

Christopher Sica¹, Sebastian Rupprecht¹, and Qing X Yang¹

¹Radiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States

Prior work has suggested that a dielectric insert can reduce the SAR in the brain at 3T. These previous results were obtained via electromagnetic simulations. Here, we present an experimental evaluation of SAR reduction in a phantom with a dielectric insert.

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