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Abstract #2684

Calibration of Electromagnetic Field Simulations of MR Coil Arrays for Accurate Quantitative Comparison with the Measured Image SNR

Christopher Stumpf1, Robert Rehner2, Sebastian Martius3, Markus Vester2, Rainer Engelbrecht1, Lorenz-Peter Schmidt1

1Chair for Microwave Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany; 2Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 3Siemens Corporate Technology, Erlangen, Germany

A new method for comparing simulated electromagnetic field results of local receive antennas to measured SNR images is shown. Electromagnetic field simulation is a powerful tool for designing MR antennas. Simulation results cannot be compared directly to measured SNR images due to system properties like e.g. magnetization of the investigated sample or receiver bandwidth. The new calibration method allows a quantitative comparison of simulated field results to measured SNR images of an arbitrary antenna structure. In this work the theory of this method is given and results are shown with an example of a 4-element antenna array.

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