Abstract #1195
A Monte Carlo Analysis of Guidewire Safety Comparing a Body and Local Coil Array
felipe godinez1,2, Jeffrey W Hand2, Nuno J Teixeira3, Bart R Steensma4, Joseph V Hajnal2, alexander J E Raaijmakers5, and shaihan malik2
1Radiology, University of California, Sacramento, CA, United States, 2Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 3Perinatal Imaging, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 4Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 5Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging Analysis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Synopsis
Metallic Endovascular devices can be unsafe when used during MR guided procedures. A potential solution to the heating problem might be to use a local coil instead of a body coil to excite the imaging volume. In this work we present a Monte Carlo analysis using many random guidewire trajectories and the transfer function to estimate the scatter electric field at the guidewire tip imbedded in a heterogenous dielectric.
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