A numerical and experimental study of RF shimming in the presence of hip prostheses using adaptive SAR at 3 T.

Aurelien DestruelMiguel FuentesEwald WeberKieran O'BrienJin JinFeng LiuMarkus BarthStuart Crozier

Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2019)

Significant RF heating can occur at 3 T near hip implants when parallel transmission is used. Adaptive SAR can be integrated in RF shimming algorithms to improve the uniformity and reduce heating.

Keyphrases

total hip arthroplasty
machine learning
deep learning