Quantification of magnetic susceptibility fingerprint of a 3D linearity medical device.

Physica Medica : PM : an International Journal Devoted to the Applications of Physics to Medicine and Biology : Official Journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
T StanescuK Wachowicz

Abstract

The study investigates the numerical modelling as well as experimental validation of magnetic susceptibility effects with respect to a 3D linearity phantom used for the quantification of MR image distortions. Magnetic field numerical simulations based on finite difference methods were conducted to generate the susceptibility (χ) model of the MRID3D phantom. Experimental data was acquired and analyzed for eight different MR scanners to include a wide range of scanning parameters. Distortion vector fields were generated by applying a harmonic analysis based on finite elements methods. Phantom scans for the same setup but with opposite polarities of the frequency encoding gradient were processed in conjunction with the susceptibility modelling to separately quantify three field components due to gradient non-linearities (GNL), B0 inhomogeneities and χ perturbations. The numerical modelling showed a significant range of χ value of up to 8.23 ppm, with a mean value of 2.9 ppm. The χ perturbations were found to be mostly present at the end plates of the cylindrical phantom design. The simulations also showed that setup rotations of up to 10° introduced only negligible variations in the χ model of less than 0.1 ppm. This allows for a ...Continue Reading

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