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Abstract #4602

A Simple Analytical Model of B1+ for MRI Measurement of RF Currents in Wire-like Medical Devices

Chiara Hartmann1, Mélina Bouldi2, and Jan M Warnking1
1U1216, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, Grenoble, France, 2ZMT Zurich MedTech AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Synopsis

Keywords: Signal Modeling, ModellingSafe access to MRI for patients with active implants may be possible by measuring RF currents in implants in individual patients with low-SAR sequences. We present a simple theoretical model of the B1+-field close to a locally straight wire at any angle to B0. MRI signals fitted by our model closely match magnitude and complex signals from electromagnetic simulations with a wire parallel to B0 or tilted at 45° and magnitude experimental signals with parallel wire. RF currents reconstructed from simulated data match ground-truth values to within 6% and current profiles reconstructed from experimental signals follow simulated currents in shape.

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