Keywords: Safety, Safety, UHF-MRI, SAR, pTx design
Motivation: Specific absorption rate (SAR), a proxy measure for tissue heating, is affected by patient motion. SAR safety factors during MRI scanning are intentionally overconservative.
Goal(s): While designed to ensure patient safety, overconservativeness impedes the utility of scanning with parallel-transmit (pTx) 7T MRI. We aim to relieve pTx MRI from overconservativeness while maintaining patient safety.
Approach: We used deep learning to predict the location of hot-spots during head motion and applied them to a pTx design method which considers patient motion.
Results: We report that hot-spots are overcalculated almost 1.5-fold when the degree of motion is not included compared to when it is.
Impact: Deep learning-estimated local specific absorption rate (SAR) variations caused by patient motion may be combined with within-scan motion tracking and subject-specific SAR models to create personalized SAR supervision for patients who cannot remain still for high-performance scanning while ensuring patient-safety.
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