|   |  | EM Fields: Computation 
and Validation 
	Room 613 - 614         
	10:30 - 12:30                 
	Chairs: Stuart Crozier and Tamer S. Ibrahim 
	
		| Time | Prog # |  |  
		| 10:30 | 697. | Accurate Absolute 
		Thermal Monitoring with RF Radiometry AbdElMonem El-Sharkawy1, 
		Paul Sotiriadis1, Paul Bottomley1, Ergin Atalar11Johns 
		Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |  
		| 10:42 | 698. | 
Real Time Measurement of 
Heating Near Metallic Implants Throughout a Phantom Using Phase-Shift  
 
MR Thermometry Howard Bassen1, 
Anthony Kam2, Wolfgang Kainz1, Gonzalo Mendoza1, 
Honghui Wang21Food 
and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, USA; 2National 
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA |  
		| 10:54 | 699. | 
High Frequency 
Electromagnetic Analysis Using Hybrid MOM/FEM Method Bing Keong Li1, 
Bin Xu1, Feng Liu1, Hon Tat Hui1, Stuart 
Crozier11University 
of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |  
		| 11:06 | 700. | 
7 Tesla Whole-Slice and 
Localized Excitation Everywhere in the Human Head Tamer S. Ibrahim11The 
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA |  
		| 11:18 | 701. | 
Achieving Uniform In-Plane B1 
Amplitude in a 3D Volume for High Field MRI: A Computer Simulation Study Zhiyue J. 
Wang1, 2, Zili Chu1, 21Texas 
Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; 2Baylor College of 
Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA |  
		| 11:30 | 702. | 
Multi-Coil Composite Pulses 
for Whole-Brain Homogeneity Improved Over RF Shimming Alone Christopher M. Collins1, 
Zhangwei Wang1, Weihua Mao1, Jieming Fang1, 
Wanzhan Liu2, Gregor Adriany2,  J. Thomas Vaughan2, 
Kamil Ugurbil2, Michael B. Smith11Penn 
State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; 2University of 
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |  
		| 11:42 | 703. | 
Simulating the SNR of 
High-Field RF Coils by the Surface Integral-Equation Method Shumin Wang1, Patrick 
J. Ledden2, Jeff H. Duyn11LFMI, 
NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Nova 
Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA |  
		| 11:54 | 704. | 
Discrete Design Method of a 
Transverse Gradient Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shmaryu Shvartsman1, 
Gordon DeMeester1, Michael Morich11Philips 
Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |  
		| 11:06 | 705. | 
A Simple Relationship for 
High Efficiency-Gradient Uniformity Trade-Offs in Multi-Layer Asymmetric 
Gradient Coils Hector Sanchez Lopez1, 
Feng Liu1, Adnan Trakic1, Stuart Crozier11University 
of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |  
		| 11:18 | 706. | 
Comparison of Peak Simulated 
Electric Fields with PNS Locations Rebecca Emily Feldman1, 
Christopher M. Collins2, Blaine Alexander Chronik11University 
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2The Pennsylvania State 
University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Canada |  |