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Abstract #2703

Numerical Evaluation of Specific Absorption Rate of Local Transceiver Coil Arrays for Ultra-High Field MRI with Different Local Mesh Properties

Egor Berezko1, Georgiy Solomakha1, Klaus Scheffler2,3, and Nikolai Avdievich1
1High-field Magnetic Resonance, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, 2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, 3Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: High-Field MRI, SafetyHome-built RF UHF MRI coils have to be carefully evaluated for safety issues. This is performed by simulating the coil model, which often include thin conductors, loaded by a human voxel model. Currently such models are available mainly for time-domain solvers. Fine mesh over conductors and the large voxel model may lead to time-consuming simulations. Therefore, for smaller head-sized coils, the model has to be cut and the proper mesh size chosen. In this work, we numerically investigated the dependence of B1+ and SAR for four different head coils on fine local meshing and the size of the voxel model.

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