Keywords: Shims, Shims, 7T, numeric optimization, brain
Motivation: Optimal B0-shimming has critical importance for MRI at Ultra-High-Field providing essential gain of SNR and diminishing a variety of MR-images artefacts.
Goal(s): The aim was to compare the capabilities of local and global solvers to enable the most efficient numeric optimization providing homogeneous B0 in the targeted regions.
Approach: We performed a retrospective study using B0-maps of 37 subjects acquired at 7T-scanner with shims up to 3rd order.
Results: The global solvers based on the evolutionary algorithms provide better stability of optimization compared to local solver. The adequate choice of global solver for 3rd-order calibration-based B0-shimming may provide results superior the vendor-integrated procedures.
Impact: Global optimization solvers based on evolutionary algorithms may provide B0-shimming results essentially superior to the vendor-integrated solution on a 7T scanner with 3rd order shims.
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