Using Anatomical Human Body Model for FEM SAR Simulation of a 3T MRI System

Alexander Prokop; Tilmann Wittig; Abhay Morey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45623-8_16

Using Anatomical Human Body Model for FEM SAR Simulation of a 3T MRI System

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In: Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020: Computational Human Models Presented at EMBC 2019 and the BRAIN Initiative® 2019 Meeting [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021.

2020 Aug 6.

Authors

Alexander Prokop¹, Tilmann Wittig¹, Abhay Morey²

Book Editors

Sergey N. Makarov¹, Gregory M. Noetscher¹, Aapo Nummenmaa²

Affiliations

¹ Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA, Darmstadt, Germany
² Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA, Pune, India

Book Affiliations

¹ Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
² Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

Excerpt

Specific absorption rate (SAR) is calculated according to the upcoming IEC/IEEE 62704-4 Standard for Determining the Peak Spatial-Average SAR in the Human Body from Wireless Communications Devices, 30 MHz–6 GHz: General Requirements for Using the Finite Element Method on a tetrahedral mesh and compared to results with the finite integration technique on the hexahedral mesh according to IEC/IEEE 62704-1. The Female Visible Human body model Nelly is applied in a generic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil tuned for a 3 Tesla MRI system. Accuracy and computational effort are compared.

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