This work uses an RF screen, placed over the top of a human skull phantom, to reduce image banding artifacts that are common in transcranial transducer MRI. The goals of the study are to improve imaging homogeneity over the region of the brain by changing RF field patterns that cause the artifacts, and to find a solution that doesn’t attenuate or distort the ultrasound properties of the transducer. Hydrophone and focused ultrasound heating studies are performed to measure ultrasound screen transparency and MRI studies are performed to evaluate the effects the screen has on homogeneity and artifact reduction.
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