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Abstract #4091

Towards Physics-Driven Neural-Network pTx Design with Hard Constraints

Toygan Kilic1,2, Jürgen Herrler3, Patrick Liebig3, Omer Burak Demirel4, Armin Michael Nagel5,6, Mingyi Hong1, Kamil Ugurbil2, and Mehmet Akcakaya1,2
1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 2Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 3Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, 4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States, 5Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, 6Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Parallel Transmit & Multiband, Parallel Transmit & Multiband

Motivation: Optimization of parallel transmission (pTx) pulse design with hard constraints on SAR will benefit from faster approaches.

Goal(s): We seek to incorporate hard quadratic constraints for pTx using a physics-driven deep learning (DL) approach.

Approach: We unroll an extension of the log-barrier method to enforce SAR constraints, while learning the optimal gradient step sizes using a neural network. This strategy accelerates optimization with fewer steps, while not sacrificing performance.

Results: Preliminary results show that our method is faster than traditional techniques like CVXPY with similar performance.

Impact: Our proposed method reduces the time-consuming optimization used in conventional pTx and may lead to improvements especially for real-time UHF applications.

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