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Abstract #3747

Real-time SAR Supervision for a 32-channel RF Transmit System with Virtual Observation Points

Thomas M. Fiedler1, Johannes A. Grimm1,2, Christoph Klein1, Fabian J. Kratzer1, Falk Mayer1, Stephan Orzada1,3, Luisa Schweins1, and Mark E. Ladd1,2,3,4
1Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, 2Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 3Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, 4Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Safety, Safety

Motivation: Real-time local SAR supervision is a major obstacle in pTx system especially since the computational demand scales proportionally with the number of RF channels.

Goal(s): To develop a safety supervision that monitors 32 transmit channels phase sensitive and perform local SAR calculation with a higher number of VOPs.

Approach: Directional couplers are placed in the transmit path, digitizers sample the RF signal, and a GPU performs the local SAR calculation.

Results: This study demonstrates real-time RF supervision for a 32-channel pTx transmit system with local SAR calculation using 600 VOPs on a single GPU.

Impact: This study demonstrates real-time RF supervision for a 32-channel pTx transmit system with single-GPU-based local SAR calculation using 600 virtual observation points.

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