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Dupas L, Massire A, Amadon A, et al. Two-spoke placement optimization under explicit specific absorption rate and power constraints in parallel transmission at ultra-high field. J Magn Reson. 2015;255:59-67doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013.
Dupas, L., Massire, A., Amadon, A., Vignaud, A., & Boulant, N. (2015). Two-spoke placement optimization under explicit specific absorption rate and power constraints in parallel transmission at ultra-high field. Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997), 25559-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013
Dupas, Laura, et al. "Two-spoke placement optimization under explicit specific absorption rate and power constraints in parallel transmission at ultra-high field." Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) vol. 255 (2015): 59-67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013
Dupas L, Massire A, Amadon A, Vignaud A, Boulant N. Two-spoke placement optimization under explicit specific absorption rate and power constraints in parallel transmission at ultra-high field. J Magn Reson. 2015 Jun;255:59-67. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013. Epub 2015 Apr 11. PMID: 25912342.
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J Magn Reson. 2015 Jun;255:59-67. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013. Epub 2015 Apr 11.

Two-spoke placement optimization under explicit specific absorption rate and power constraints in parallel transmission at ultra-high field.

Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997)

Laura Dupas, Aurélien Massire, Alexis Amadon, Alexandre Vignaud, Nicolas Boulant

Affiliations

  1. CEA, DSV, I2BM, NeuroSpin, UNIRS, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. CEA, DSV, I2BM, NeuroSpin, UNIRS, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

PMID: 25912342 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.03.013

Abstract

The spokes method combined with parallel transmission is a promising technique to mitigate the B1(+) inhomogeneity at ultra-high field in 2D imaging. To date however, the spokes placement optimization combined with the magnitude least squares pulse design has never been done in direct conjunction with the explicit Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) and hardware constraints. In this work, the joint optimization of 2-spoke trajectories and RF subpulse weights is performed under these constraints explicitly and in the small tip angle regime. The problem is first considerably simplified by making the observation that only the vector between the 2 spokes is relevant in the magnitude least squares cost-function, thereby reducing the size of the parameter space and allowing a more exhaustive search. The algorithm starts from a set of initial k-space candidates and performs in parallel for all of them optimizations of the RF subpulse weights and the k-space locations simultaneously, under explicit SAR and power constraints, using an active-set algorithm. The dimensionality of the spoke placement parameter space being low, the RF pulse performance is computed for every location in k-space to study the robustness of the proposed approach with respect to initialization, by looking at the probability to converge towards a possible global minimum. Moreover, the optimization of the spoke placement is repeated with an increased pulse bandwidth in order to investigate the impact of the constraints on the result. Bloch simulations and in vivo T2(∗)-weighted images acquired at 7 T validate the approach. The algorithm returns simulated normalized root mean square errors systematically smaller than 5% in 10 s.

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Keywords: Parallel transmission; RF optimization; Spoke placement

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