Craig I. Lawrie1,
Xiaoyu Yang1, Tsinghua Zheng1, Matthew Finnerty2,
Shinya Handa2, Hiroyuki Fujita2, 3
1Quality
Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; 2Quality
Electrodynamics, Mayfield Village, OH, United States; 3Department
of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
The use of a local transmitter coil to reduce local SAR heating is evaluated with regards to MRI imaging in the presence of long conductive media. Simulation results indicate that a local transmitter coil has an SAR advantage due to both smaller electric fields and the ability to fine-tune geometric positioning.