Abstract #0946

Joint dynamic shimming using the scanner’s spherical harmonic shim combined with a local multi-coil shim array

Ali Aghaeifar^1,2, Christian Mirkes³, and Klaus Scheffler^1,4

¹Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, ²IMPRS for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ³Skope Magnetic Resonance Technologies AG, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

In this work, we combined scanner's spherical harmonic shim coils with a local multi-coil shim array to work in parallel for dynamic shimming of the human brain at 9.4 T. Performance of the combined method is compared with global shimming with scanner's built-in shim setup, global shimming with multi-coil and dynamic shimming with multi-coil.

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