Monday AM 1 Opening Session 2011 Mansfield Lecture ... - ISMRM

Multichannel Transmit Monitoring & Simulation
Exhibition Hall Monday 14:00-16:00 Computer 71
Poster Sessions
14:00 3843. A Robust Concept for Real-Time SAR Calculation in Parallel Transmission
Hanno Homann 1 , Peter Börnert 2 , Olaf Dössel 1 , Ingmar Graesslin 2
1 2
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Philips Research Europe, Hamburg,
Germany
14:30 3844. Ultra-Fast Calculation of SAR-Induced Temperature Increase
Giuseppe Carluccio 1 , Sukhoon Oh 2 , Christopher Michael Collins 2
1 Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; 2 Radiology & Bioengineering,
Pennsylvania State University at Hershey, Hershey, PA, United States
15:00 3845. Simulation Tool for 3T/7T Subject-Specific Multi-Transmission Applications without RF Measurements
Tamer S. Ibrahim 1 , Lin Tang 2 , Yik-Kiong Hue
1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2 University of Oklahoma
15:30 3846. Patient Adapted SAR Calculation on a Parallel Transmission System
Ingmar Graesslin 1 , Hanno Homann 2 , Sven Biederer 3 , Peter Börnert 1 , Giel Mens 4 , Paul Harvey 4
1 Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany; 3 Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; 4 Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands
Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 71
13:30 3847. Simple Approaches to Current Control for Transmit Array Elements at 7 Tesla
Steven M. Wright 1,2 , Mary Preston McDougall 1,2 , Ivan Dimitrov 3 , Sergey Cheshkov 3 , Craig Malloy 3
1 Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States; 2 Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX, United States; 3 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
14:00 3848. Threshold Criteria for Real Time RF Monitoring in 7T Parallel Transmit System
Borjan Gagoski 1 , Himanshu Bhat 2 , Philipp Hoecht 2 , Khaldoun Makhoul 3,4 , Ulrich Fontius 5 , Josef Pfeuffer 5 , Franz
Schmitt 5 , Michael Hamm 2 , Joonsung Lee 1 , Kawin Setsompop 3,4 , Lawrence L. Wald 3,6 , Elfar Adalsteinsson 1,6
1 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; 2 Siemens
Healthcare, Charlestown, MA, United States; 3 A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; 4 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 5 Siemens
Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 6 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
14:30 3849. RF Monitoring of the Complex Waveforms of an 8-Channel Multi-Transmit System at 7T Utilizing Directional
Couplers & I/Q Demodulators
Irina Brote 1,2 , Klaus Solbach 3 , Stephan Orzada 1,2 , Oliver Kraff 1,2 , Stefan Maderwald 1,2 , Mark E. Ladd 1,2 , Andreas K.
Bitz 1,2
1 Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen, Germany; 2 Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology
& Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; 3 High Frequency Engineering, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg,
Germany
15:00 3850. Method for Monitoring Safety in Parallel Transmission Systems Based on Channel-Dependent Average Powers
Nicolas Boulant 1 , Martijn Cloos 1 , Michel Luong 2 , Guillaume Ferrand 2 , Christopher Wiggins 1 , Alexis Amadon 1
1 NeuroSpin, CEA Saclay, Saclay, France; 2 Irfu, CEA Saclay, Saclay, France
Exhibition Hall Wednesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 71
13:30 3851. Tailoring RF Power Distribution for Body Torso MRI at 300MHz
Jinfeng Tian 1 , Anand Gopinath, J. T. Vaughan
1 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
14:00 3852. B 1-Based Local SAR Estimation for a Parallel Transmit System at 3T: A Simulation Study
Stefanie Buchenau 1 , Martin Haas 1 , Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff 1 , Juergen Hennig 1 , Maxim Zaitsev 1
1 Department of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
14:30 3853. Feasibility of a Local SAR Monitoring for a 7T Body Transmit Array with Single Element Power Monitoring
Ozlem Ipek 1 , Alexander J. E. Raaijmakers 1 , Dennis W. J. Klomp 2 , Alessandro Sbrizzi 3 , Peter R. Luijten 2 , Jan J. W.
Lagendijk 1 , Cornelis A. T. van Den Berg 1
1 2 3
Radiotherapy, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; Radiology, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; Radiotherapy , UMC Utrecht,
Utrecht, Netherlands
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