Abstract #2805

Accurate Simulation of Signal and Noise in MRI Based on Electromagnetic Field Calculation and Bloch Simulation

Zhipeng Cao¹, Christopher T. Sica², Wei Luo², Sukhoon Oh³, Christopher Michael Collins³

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 method for generating simulated MR images (starting with knowledge of only pulse sequence, receiver bandwidth, and distributions of sample properties and field distributions through space) with realistic levels of noise is described and demonstrated with comparison to experimentally-measured SNR.