Abstract #0296

SAR estimation error due to body model mismatch for fetal imaging at 3 Tesla

Filiz Yetisir¹, Esra Abaci Turk¹, Bastien Guerin^2,3, Borjan Gagoski¹, Natalie Copeland¹, P. Ellen Grant¹, Lawrence L. Wald^2,3,4, and Elfar Adalsteinsson^5,6

¹Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, ²A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, ⁴Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States, ⁵Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, ⁶Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

RF safety concerns have been raised for both the mother and the fetus for 3 T fetal MRI. Parallel transmission can address these concerns by reducing the maternal and fetal SAR however it also relies on one or more body models to predict that individual’s local SAR. In this work, we assess the range of error incurred when various pregnant or non-pregnant models are used to predict SAR in pregnant patients. We model the degree of over or underestimation of SAR in 56 combinations of model/patient and find a maximum SAR under/over-estimation of 59%/142%.

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