Daniel Brenner1, Frank Geschewski1,
Joerg Felder1, Kaveh Vahedipour1, Nadim Jon Shah1,2
1Institute of Neurosciene
& Medicine - 4, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; 2Department
of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, JARA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen,
Germany
This work provides validation of Finite-Integral-Method (FIM) electromagnetic field simulations of a patch antenna for travelling wave excitation using experimental data measured in a 9.4T human MRI scanner. Quantification of the excitation field was performed with the Actual Flip angle Imaging (AFI) sequence. Good quantitative agreement is illustrated between simulation and experimental data.