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Abstract #3739

Subject-Specific SAR Maps through Conventional MRI Imaging

Jessica A. Martinez1, Alessandro Arduino2, Kevin Moulin3, Umberto Zanovello2, Ouri Cohen1, Ricardo Otazo1, Oriano Bottauscio2, and Luca Zilberti2
1Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York,, NY, United States, 2Advanced Materials Metrology and Life Science, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino, Italy, 3Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Safety, Safety, Electromagnetic Tissue Properties, SAR

Motivation: To enable real-time SAR monitoring in MRI examinations, particularly when numerical simulations are not feasible.

Goal(s): This work aimed to explore the feasibility of obtaining subject-specific image-based SAR maps directly from conventional MRI sequences in vivo.

Approach: The tissue electrical conductivities were characterized using an MRI phase-based electrical properties tomography approach, and the electric field distribution was measured by applying Ampère's law on the B1 field obtained from B1 mapping.

Results: Subject-specific image-based SAR maps can be obtained from conventional MRI data. Median electrical conductivity values and retrieved SAR maps qualitatively agreed with existing literature.

Impact: We analyze the feasibility of obtaining in vivo subject-specific image-based SAR maps directly from conventional MRI data. The electrical conductivity is obtained through electrical properties tomography (EPT) and the E-field is estimated from the B1 field.

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