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ArticleNMR in biomedicine2023

Tier-based formalism for safety assessment of custom-built radio-frequency transmit coils.

Bart Romke Steensma, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Ettore Flavio Meliadò, Cornelis A T van den Berg, Dennis W J Klomp, Peter R Luijten, Gregory J Metzger, Yigitcan Eryaman, Alexander J E Raaijmakers

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Article in NMR in biomedicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Bart Romke SteensmaDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4254-9937
Alireza Sadeghi-TarakamehCenter for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Ettore Flavio MeliadòDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Cornelis A T van den BergDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Dennis W J KlompDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Peter R LuijtenDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Gregory J MetzgerCenter for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Yigitcan EryamanCenter for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Alexander J E RaaijmakersDivision of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

TRD4 - Ultrahigh Field Engineering and SafetyP41EB027061 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Gregory John Metzger · 2019 to 2026
$11.7M
Safe Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation SystemsR01NS115180 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI ERYAMAN, YIGITCAN · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS115180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to propose a tier-based formalism for safety assessment of custom-built radio-frequency (RF) coils that balances validation effort with the effort put in determinating the safety factor. The formalism has three tier levels. Higher tiers require increased effort when validating electromagnetic simulation results but allow for less conservative safety factors. In addition, we propose a new method to calculate modeling uncertainty between simulations and measurements and a new method to propagate uncertainties in the simulation into a safety factor that minimizes the risk of underestimating the peak specific absorption rate (SAR). The new safety assessment procedure was completed for all tier levels for an eight-channel dipole array for prostate imaging at 7 T and an eight-channel dipole array for head imaging at 10.5 T, using data from two different research sites. For the 7 T body array, the validation procedure resulted in a modeling uncertainty of 77% between measured and simulated local SAR distributions. For a situation where RF shimming is performed on the prostate, average power limits of 2.4 and 4.5 W/channel were found for tiers 2 and 3, respectively. When the worst-case peak SAR among all phase settings was calculated, power limits of 1.4 and 2.7 W/channel were found for tiers 2 and 3, respectively. For the 10.5 T head array, a modeling uncertainty of 21% was found based on B

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingRadio WavesComputer SimulationHumansMalePhantoms, ImagingProstateEM simulationsRF coilssafety factorSARvalidation

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PMID36368912
PMCPMC10411033
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