Novel materials in magnetic resonance imaging: high permittivity ceramics, metamaterials, metasurfaces and artificial dielectrics

A Webb, A Shchelokova, A Slobozhanyuk… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2022 - Springer
This article reviews recent developments in designing and testing new types of materials
which can be:(i) placed around the body for in vivo imaging,(ii) be integrated into a …

7T: Physics, safety, and potential clinical applications

O Kraff, HH Quick - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With more than 60 installed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems worldwide
operating at a magnetic field strength of 7T or higher, ultrahigh‐field (UHF) MRI has been …

Reducing RF-induced heating near implanted leads through high-dielectric capacitive bleeding of current (CBLOC)

L Golestanirad, LM Angelone, J Kirsch… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Patients with implanted medical devices such as deep brain stimulation or spinal cord
stimulation are often unable to receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This is because …

Practical improvements in the design of high permittivity pads for dielectric shimming in neuroimaging at 7 T

TPA O'Reilly, AG Webb, WM Brink - Journal of magnetic resonance, 2016 - Elsevier
Improvements are proposed for practical design and use of high permittivity materials in high
field neuroimaging in three different areas:(i) a simple formula to predict the permittivity of tri …

Improvements of transmit efficiency and receive sensitivity with ultrahigh dielectric constant (uHDC) ceramics at 1.5 T and 3 T

S Rupprecht, CT Sica, W Chen… - Magnetic resonance …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Incorporating high dielectric constant (HDC) materials into radiofrequency (RF)
coils has been shown to effectively improve RF coil performance at 7 and 3 T because of the …

[HTML][HTML] High permittivity ceramics improve the transmit field and receive efficiency of a commercial extremity coil at 1.5 Tesla

I Zivkovic, W Teeuwisse, A Slobozhanyuk… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective The purpose of this work is to investigate the use of ceramic materials (based on
BaTiO 3 with ZrO 2 and CeO 2-additives) with very high relative permittivity (ε r∼ 4500) to …

Noninvasive glioblastoma testing: multimodal approach to monitoring and predicting treatment response

M Verduin, I Compter, D Steijvers, AA Postma… - Disease …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive adult primary brain tumor which is incurable despite
intensive multimodal treatment. Inter‐and intratumoral heterogeneity poses one of the …

Studying neurons and glia non-invasively via anomalous subdiffusion of intracellular metabolites

C Ingo, W Brink, E Ercan, AG Webb, I Ronen - Brain Structure and Function, 2018 - Springer
Cells in the central nervous system, neurons and glia, display a wide range of structural
features. Molecular diffusion properties in the intracellular space of these cells reflect this …

High‐permittivity pad design tool for 7T neuroimaging and 3T body imaging

J van Gemert, W Brink, A Webb… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose High‐permittivity materials in the form of flexible “dielectric pads” have proved very
useful for addressing RF inhomogeneities in high field MRI systems. Finding the optimal …

Flexible metasurface for improving brain imaging at 7T

V Koloskov, WM Brink, AG Webb… - Magnetic resonance …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Ultra‐high field MRI offers unprecedented detail for noninvasive visualization of the
human brain. However, brain imaging is challenging at 7T due to the B 1+ _1^+ field …