{"id":10930,"date":"2020-07-02T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2020-07-02T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:20:40","slug":"improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving radiofrequency power and specific absorption rate management with bumped transmit elements in ultra\u2010high field MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/teams\/alireza-sadeghi-tarakameh\/\">Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh<\/a>, who is a PhD student of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/teams\/ergin-atalar\/\">Ergin Atalar<\/a>, published the results of a collaborative work between CMRR and UMRAM in a paper entitled \u201cImproving radiofrequency power and specific absorption rate management with bumped transmit elements in ultra\u2010high field MRI.\u201d The main goal of this study is to facilitate prostate imaging and assure patient safety at ultra-high field MRI. The senior author of the article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/teams\/yigitcan-eryaman\/\">Yi\u011fitcan Eryaman<\/a>,\u00a0is an assistant professor at CMRR and received his PhD degree from Bilkent University. Other authors of this article, Gregor Adriany, Gregory J. Metzger, Russell L. Lagore, Steve Jungst, Lance DelaBarre, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele, and Kamil Ugurbil, are from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"SectionTitle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"SubsectionTitle2\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Purpose<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"SubsectionTitle2\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In this study, we investigate a strategy to reduce the local specific absorption rate (SAR) while keeping B<sub>1<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup> constant inside the region-of-interest (ROI) at the ultra-high field (B<sub>0<\/sub> \u2265 7 T) MRI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Methods<\/p>\n<p>Locally raising the resonance structure under the discontinuity (i.e., creating a bump) increases the distance between the accumulated charges and the tissue. As a result, it reduces the electric field and local SAR generated by these charges inside the tissue. The B<sub>1<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup> at a point that is sufficiently far from the coil however is not affected by this modification. In this study, three different resonant elements (i.e., loop coil, snake antenna, and fractionated dipole (FD)) are investigated. For experimental validation, a bumped FD is further investigated at 10.5 T. After the validation, the transmit performances of eight-channel arrays of each element are compared through EM simulations.<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>Introducing a bump reduced the peak 10g-averaged SAR by 21, 26, 23% for the loop and snake antenna at 7 T, and FD at 10.5 T, respectively. In addition, eight-channel bumped FD array at 10.5 T had a 27% lower peak 10g-averaged SAR in a realistic human body simulation (i.e., prostate imaging) compared to an eight-channel FD array.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>In this study, we investigated a simple design strategy based on adding bumps to a resonant element to reduce the local SAR while maintaining B<sub>1<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup> inside an ROI.\u00a0 As an example, we modified an FD and performed EM simulations and phantom experiments with a 10.5T scanner. Results show that the peak 10g-averaged SAR can be reduced more than 25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, who is a PhD student of\u00a0Ergin Atalar, published the results of a collaborative work between CMRR and UMRAM in a paper entitled \u201cImproving radiofrequency power and specific absorption rate management with bumped transmit elements in ultra\u2010high field MRI.\u201d The main goal of this study is to facilitate prostate imaging and assure patient safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}