Adaptive SAR mass‐averaging framework to improve predictions of local RF heating near a hip implant for parallel transmit at 7 T

A Destruel, K O'Brien, J **, F Liu… - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Magnetic resonance imaging is used increasingly to scan patients with hip
prostheses. We evaluated the reliability of 10 g–averaged specific absorption rate (SAR10g) …

A numerical and experimental study of RF shimming in the presence of hip prostheses using adaptive SAR at 3 T

A Destruel, M Fuentes, E Weber… - Magnetic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Parallel transmission techniques in MRI have the potential to improve the image
quality near metal implants at 3 T. However, current testing of implants only evaluates the …