Giuseppe Carluccio1,2 and Christopher Michael Collins1,3
1Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York, NY, United States, 2Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States, 3Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States
1Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York, NY, United States, 2Radiology, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States, 3Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States
Through numerical simulations, we explore the possibility to use high-permittivity pads to improve the signal in the chest. Our simulations show that some improvement can be obtained by adding the pads to the coils.
Geometry of the models of the coils and of the human body
Plot of the average value of the SNR (red lines) and the transmit efficiency (blue lines) in the heart for different values of the permittivity for the two pads.