Advanced Modeling of RF Fields

10:30      814.    B₁ Field Uniformity Improvement at 400 MHz Using Multi-Channel Excitation Birdcage

Victor Taracila¹, Labros S. Petropoulos^1,2, Timothy P. Eagan¹, Tesfaye K. Kidane¹, Tanvir N. Baig¹, Robert W. Brown¹

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Hitachi Medical Systems, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA
 

10:42      815.    A Multiple Element Probe and Sequential Pulse Sequence for Ultra High Field Imaging - An Improvement in B₁ Homogeneity  - not available

Arthur William Magill¹, Ben Wilton¹, Alexa Jones¹, David McKirdy¹, Paul Glover¹

¹Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK
 

10:54      816.    Strengths and Limitations of Pulsing Coils in an Array Sequentially to Avoid RF Interference in High Field MRI

Christopher M. Collins¹, Barbara L. Beck², Jeffrey R. Fitzsimmons², Stephen J. Blackband², Michael B. Smith¹

¹Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
 

11:06      817.    An Object-Orient Designed FDTD Simulator - Applications to High Field Systems

Qing Wei¹, Stuart Crozier¹, Bin Xu¹, Adnan Trakic¹, Bing Keong Li¹, Feng Liu¹

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 

11:18      818.    Comparison of Transmit Efficiency for Head Imaging at 3T and 7T - not available

Gordon D. DeMeester¹, Zhiyong Zhai¹, Michael A. Morich¹, Christoph Leussler², Christian Findeklee², P. Röschmann²

¹Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany
 

11:30      819.    High-Pass Two-Dimensional Ladder Network Resonators - not available

Douglas Ballon¹, Henning U. Voss¹

¹Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
 

11:42      820.    Optimized Whole-Body RF Coil for Imaging Applications at 7 Tesla  - not available

Tamer Ibrahim¹, Roney Abraham¹, Doney Abraham¹

¹The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
 

11:54      821.    Simulation on Passive RF Shimming with High Permittivity Dielectrics in Ultra-High Field

Weihua Mao¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Qing X. Yang¹

¹Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
 

12:06      822.    Modelling Metamaterials for MRI

Michael C. K. Wiltshire¹, John B. Pendry, Joseph V. Hajnal¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK
 

12:18      823.    Mode-Scanning Excitation (MSE) Method for Locally Homogeneous Transmit Profile at 7T - not available

Ray F. Lee¹

¹New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA