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PubMed: 38439745 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.30063
A theoretical framework to investigate the effect of high permittivity materials in MRI using anatomy-mimicking cylinders.
Magn Reson Med 92(1):416-429
Authors: Vincenzo Miranda, Giuseppe Ruello, Riccardo Lattanzi
Affiliations
- University of Napoli Federico II, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Naples, Italy.
- Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R) and Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE
Recent numerical and empirical results proved that high permittivity materials (HPM) used in pads placed near the subject or directly integrated with coils can increase the SNR and reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) in MRI. In this paper, we propose an analytical investigation of the effect on the magnetic field distribution of a layer of HPM surrounding an anatomy-mimicking cylindrical sample.
METHODS
The study is based on a reformulation of the Mie scattering for cylindrical geometry, following an approach recently introduced for spherical samples. The total field in each medium is decomposed in terms of inward and outward electromagnetic waves, and the fields are expressed as series of cylindrical harmonics, whose coefficients can be interpreted as classical reflection and transmission coefficients.
RESULTS
Our new formulation allows a quantitative evaluation of the effect of the HPM layer for varying permittivity and thickness, and it provides an intuitive understanding of such effect in terms of propagation and scattering of the RF field.
CONCLUSION
We show how HPM can filter out the modes that only contribute to the noise or RF power deposition, resulting in higher SNR or lower SAR, respectively. Our proposed framework provides physical insight on how to properly design HPM for MRI applications.
MeSH
Anatomy