Abstract #4245

Eddy Current Characterization of a Multi-Coil Array for Imaging in a Head-Only MR Scanner

Sebastian Theilenberg¹, Ben John Parkinson², and Christoph Juchem^1,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, ²Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, ³Department of Radiology, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States

As part of a collaborative effort to create a novel compact high-temperature superconductor 1.5 T head-only scanner for improved accessibility of MRI and advanced motor coordination studies, we are developing a 31-coil Multi-Coil (MC) array for linear and non-linear image encoding and concomitant B₀ shimming. Here we present a preliminary characterization of the expected eddy currents generated by the unshielded MC array in the unusual scanner assembly at hand based on finite element based electromagnetic simulations.

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