ARTEFAK ALIASING CITRA MRI HUMERUS MENGGUNAKAN BODY COIL PADA PENGATURAN VARIASI FREQUENCY ENCODING DIRECTION DAN PHASE OVERSAMPLING

AbstractPatients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) implants can significantly benefit from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination, however, access to MRI is restricted in this patients because of safety concerns due to RF heating of the leads. Recently we introduced a patient-adjustable reconfigurable MRI coil system to reduce the SAR at the tip of deep brain stimulation implants during MRI at 1.5T. A simulation study with realistic models of single (unilateral) DBS leads demonstrated a substantial reduction in the local SAR up to 500-fold could be achieved using the coil system compared to quadrature birdcage coils. Many patients however, have bilateral DBS implants and the question arises whether the rotating coil system can be used in for them. This work reports the results of phantom experiments measuring the temperature rise at the tips of bilateral DBS implants with realistic trajectories extracted from postoperative CT images of 10 patients (20 leads in total). A total of 200 measurements were performed to record temperature rise at the tips of the leads during 2 minutes of scanning with the coil rotated to cover all accessible rotation angles. In all patients, we were able to find an optimum coil rotation angle and reduced the heating of both left and right leads to a level below the heating produced by the body coil. An average heat reduction of 65% was achieved for bilateral leads. Reconfigurable coil technology introduces a promising approach for imaging of patients with DBS implants.

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Potential Reduction of Peripheral Local SAR for a Birdcage Body Coil at 3 Tesla Using a Magnetic Shield

Frontiers in Physics ◽

10.3389/fphy.2021.716521 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

C.C. van Leeuwen ◽

B.R. Steensma ◽

S.B. Glybovski ◽

M.F.J. Lunenburg ◽

C. Simovski ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eddy Currents ◽

Periodic Structures ◽

Ring Resonators ◽

Scale Model ◽

Birdcage Coil ◽

Magnetic Shield ◽

Body Regions ◽

Body Coil ◽

Local Sar ◽

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The birdcage body coil, the standard transmit coil in clinical MRI systems, is typically a shielded coil. The shield avoids interaction with other system components, but Eddy Currents induced in the shield have an opposite direction with respect to the currents in the birdcage coil. Therefore, the fields are partly counteracted by the Eddy currents, and large coil currents are required to reach the desired B1+ level in the subject. These large currents can create SAR hotspots in body regions close to the coil. Complex periodic structures known as metamaterials enable the realization of a magnetic shield with magnetic rather than electric conductivity. A magnetic shield will have Eddy currents in the same direction as the coil currents. It will allow generating the same B1+ with lower current amplitude, which is expected to reduce SAR hotspots and improve homogeneity. This work explores the feasibility of a birdcage body coil at 3 T with a magnetic shield. Initially, we investigate the feasibility by designing a scale model of a birdcage coil with an anisotropic implementation of a magnetic shield at 7 T using flattened split ring resonators. It is shown that the magnetic shield destroys the desired resonance mode because of increased coil loading. To enforce the right mode, a design is investigated where each birdcage rung is driven individually. This design is implemented in a custom built birdcage at 7 T, successfully demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed concept. Finally, we investigate the potential improvements of a 3 T birdcage body coil through simulations using an idealized magnetic shield consisting of a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC). The PMC shield is shown to eliminate the peripheral regions of high local SAR, increasing the B1+ per unit maximum local SAR by 27% in a scenario where tissue is present close to the coil. However, the magnetic shield increases the longitudinal field of view, which reduces the transmit efficiency by 25%.

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