Artifacts caused by large magnetic susceptibility differences between metallic probes and the surrounding tissue are a persistent problem in many interventional MRI applications. In previous work, we presented the concept, design and modeling of active shims for metallic needles. In this work, we present the experimental demonstration of recovery of metallic probe induced signal loss at 3 Tesla. Effective recovery of lost signal and correction of field inhomogeneity is shown across needle orientations and imaging sequences.
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