Zhipeng Cao1,
Wei Luo2, Christopher T. Sica2, Sukhoon Oh3,
Sebastian Rupprecht2, Giuseppe Carluccio3, Christopher
Michael Collins3, Qing X. Yang2
1Radiology,
Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 2Radiology,
The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; 3Radiology,
New York University, New York City, NY, United States
A simulation analysis of the effect of high dielectric materials on receive efficiency and g-factor for a phantom within an 8-channel head sized array is performed using numerical calculations. Results indicate that strategic use of high dielectric materials can provide notable improvement in parallel imaging performance for a given sample with standard coil setup.