Abstract #2802

Dramatic Improvement of Parallel Imaging with High Dielectric Material Demonstration with Electromagnetic Field Calculations at 123 MHz

Zhipeng Cao¹, Wei Luo², Christopher T. Sica², Sukhoon Oh³, Sebastian Rupprecht², Giuseppe Carluccio³, Christopher Michael Collins³, Qing X. Yang²

¹Radiology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; ²Radiology, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States; ³Radiology, New York University, New York City, NY, United States

A simulation analysis of the effect of high dielectric materials on receive efficiency and g-factor for a phantom within an 8-channel head sized array is performed using numerical calculations. Results indicate that strategic use of high dielectric materials can provide notable improvement in parallel imaging performance for a given sample with standard coil setup.