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Abstract #0105

Parallel Transmit RF Design with Local SAR Constraints

Joonsung Lee1, Matthias Gebhardt2, Lawrence L. Wald3,4, Elfar Adalsteinsson1,4

1Electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; 2Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 3Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Cambridge, MA, United States; 4Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


The model compression method for local SAR esitmation dramatically decreases the complexity of the prediction of the local SAR calculation and enables the incorporation of local SAR constaints in pTX MLS RF design.