Empirical assessments on phantoms are essential to assess the health risks associated with performing EEG recordings concurrently with fMRI in humans; however they are time consuming limiting our capability to adequately investigate the range of scenarios encountered in real-world applications. Electromagnetic (EM) computational simulations can help to address this limitation, if they can be performed efficiently enough. Here we assessed the improvements of computational efficiency obtained by simplifying the representation of brain-indwelling EEG electrodes for EM simulations. The observed differences in estimated SAR between the full and simplified models can be understood in terms of a simple heuristic model.
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