Title :
Challenges for high field clinical MRI
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol., Leiden Univ. Med. Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
Abstract :
Clinical MRI can potentially benefit greatly from the relatively recent advent of commercial high-field (7 and 9.4 Tesla) systems. However, there are several major engineering challenges associated with high fields, the main one of which is to produce a strong, homogeneous transmit B1 field, while remaining within regulatory guidelines for tissue power deposition.
Keywords :
Arteries; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Coils; Interference; Magnetic resonance imaging; Nonuniform electric fields; Radio frequency; Radiology; Spatial resolution; RF distribution; clinical MRI; high frequency; quadrature excitation; transmit arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4125-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7928
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490281
