University of Minnesota

Christopher C Olson

J Thomas Vaughan, Jr

Anand Gopinath

Kamil Ugurbil

Heather Diane Orser

Pierre-Francois Van De Moortele

Carl J Snyder

Lance DelaBarre

Can E Akgun

Xiaoping Wu

Jinfeng Tian

John Strupp

Peter M Andersen

Gregor Adiany

A magnetic resonance system is disclosed. The system includes a transceiver having a multichannel receiver and a multichannel transmitter, where each channel of the transmitter is configured for independent selection of frequency, phase, time, space, and magnitude, and each channel of the receiver is configured for independent selection of space, time, frequency, phase and gain. The system also includes a magnetic resonance coil having a plurality of current elements, with each element coupled in one to one relation with a channel of the receiver and a channel of the transmitter. The system further includes a processor coupled to the transceiver, such that the processor is configured to execute instructions to control a current in each element and to perform a non-linear algorithm to shim the coil.

High field magnetic resonance

Technology for controlling non-uniformity in the Bfield includes selecting the phase, magnitude, frequency, time, or spatial relationship among various elements of a multi-channel excitation coil in order to control the radio frequency (RF) power emanating from the coil antenna elements. Non-uniformity can be used to steer a constructively interfering Bfield node to spatially correlate with an anatomic region of interest. A convex (quadratically constrained quadratic problem) formulation of the Blocalization problem can be used to select parameters for exciting the coil. Localization can be used in simulated Finite Difference Time Domain Bfield human head distributions and human head phantom measurement.

Radio frequency field localization for magnetic resonance

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Christopher C Olson