Magnetic field strength dependent SNR gain at the center of a spherical phantom and up to 11. 7T

C Le Ster, A Grant, PF Van de Moortele… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The SNR at the center of a spherical phantom of known electrical properties was
measured in quasi‐identical experimental conditions as a function of magnetic field strength …

A 128‐channel receive array for cortical brain imaging at 7 T

B Gruber, JP Stockmann, A Mareyam… - Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose A 128‐channel receive‐only array for brain imaging at 7 T was simulated,
designed, constructed, and tested within a high‐performance head gradient designed for …

Performance of receive head arrays versus ultimate intrinsic SNR at 7 T and 10.5 T

B Zhang, J Radder, I Giannakopoulos… - Magnetic resonance …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We examined magnetic field dependent SNR gains and ability to capture them with
multichannel receive arrays for human head imaging in going from 7 T, the most commonly …

A physical framework to interpret the effects of high permittivity materials on radiofrequency coil performance in magnetic resonance imaging

G Ruello, R Lattanzi - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: We propose a framework to interpret the effects of High Permittivity Materials
(HPM) on the performance of radiofrequency coils in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) …

Scattering from spheres: A new look into an old problem

G Ruello, R Lattanzi - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this work, we introduce a theoretical framework to describe the scattering from spheres. In
our proposed framework, the total field in the outer medium is decomposed in terms of …

A formalism to investigate the optimal transmit efficiency in radiofrequency shimming

IP Georgakis, AG Polimeridis, R Lattanzi - NMR in Biomedicine, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Transmit efficiency specifies the amplitude of the magnetic resonance excitation field
produced over a region of interest with respect to the radiofrequency (RF) power deposited …

RF coil design strategies for improving SNR at the ultrahigh magnetic field of 10.5 T

M Waks, RL Lagore, E Auerbach… - Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Toward pushing the boundaries of ultrahigh fields for human brain imaging, we
wish to evaluate experimentally achievable SNR relative to ultimate intrinsic SNR (uiSNR) at …

Comparison of tight‐fitting 7T parallel‐transmit head array designs using excitation uniformity and local specific absorption rate metrics

E Kazemivalipour, LL Wald… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We model the performance of parallel transmission (pTx) arrays with 8, 16, 24, and
32 channels and varying loop sizes built on a close‐fitting helmet for brain imaging at 7 T …

Novel numerical basis sets for electromagnetic field expansion in arbitrary inhomogeneous objects

IP Georgakis, JF Villena… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigated how to construct low-order subspace basis sets to accurately represent
electromagnetic (EM) fields generated within inhomogeneous arbitrary objects by radio …

A theoretical framework to investigate the effect of high permittivity materials in MRI using anatomy‐mimicking cylinders

V Miranda, G Ruello, R Lattanzi - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Recent numerical and empirical results proved that high permittivity materials
(HPM) used in pads placed near the subject or directly integrated with coils can increase the …