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      Optically Controlled On-Coil Amplifier with RF Monitoring Feedback

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          Abstract

          Purpose

          To develop a new optically controlled on-coil amplifier that facilitates safe use of multi-channel RF transmission in MRI by real-time monitoring of signal phase and amplitude.

          Methods

          Monitoring was performed with a 4-channel prototype system by sensing, down sampling, digitizing and optically transmitting the RF transmit signal to a remote PC to control the amplifiers. Performance was evaluated with benchtop and 7T MRI experiments.

          Results

          Monitored amplitude and phase were stable across repetitions and had standard deviations of 0.061 μT and 0.0073 rad respectively. The feedback system allowed inter-channel phase and B 1 amplitude to be adjusted within two iterations. MRI experiments demonstrated the feasibility of this approach to perform safe and accurate multi-channel RF transmission and monitoring at high field.

          Conclusion

          We demonstrated a 4-channel transceiver system based on optically controlled on-coil amplifiers with RF signal monitoring and feedback control. The approach allows the safe and precise control of RF transmission fields, required to achieve uniform excitation at high field.

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          Single-Sideband Transmission by Envelope Elimination and Restoration

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            Exploring the limits of RF shimming for high-field MRI of the human head.

            Several methods have been proposed for overcoming the effects of radiofrequency (RF) magnetic field inhomogeneity in high-field MRI. Some of these methods rely at least in part on the ability to independently control magnitude and phase of different drives in either one multielement RF coil or in different RF coils in a transmit array. The adjustment of these drive magnitudes and phases alone to create uniform RF magnetic (B(1)) fields has been called RF shimming, and has certain limits at every frequency as dictated by possible solutions to Maxwell's equations. Here we use numerical calculations to explore the limits of RF shimming in the human head. We found that a 16-element array can effectively shim a single slice at frequencies up to 600 MHz and the whole brain at up to 300 MHz, while an 80-element array can shim the whole brain at up to 600 MHz.
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              Slice-selective RF pulses for in vivo B1+ inhomogeneity mitigation at 7 tesla using parallel RF excitation with a 16-element coil.

              Slice-selective RF waveforms that mitigate severe B1+ inhomogeneity at 7 Tesla using parallel excitation were designed and validated in a water phantom and human studies on six subjects using a 16-element degenerate stripline array coil driven with a butler matrix to utilize the eight most favorable birdcage modes. The parallel RF waveform design applied magnitude least-squares (MLS) criteria with an optimized k-space excitation trajectory to significantly improve profile uniformity compared to conventional least-squares (LS) designs. Parallel excitation RF pulses designed to excite a uniform in-plane flip angle (FA) with slice selection in the z-direction were demonstrated and compared with conventional sinc-pulse excitation and RF shimming. In all cases, the parallel RF excitation significantly mitigated the effects of inhomogeneous B1+ on the excitation FA. The optimized parallel RF pulses for human B1+ mitigation were only 67% longer than a conventional sinc-based excitation, but significantly outperformed RF shimming. For example the standard deviations (SDs) of the in-plane FA (averaged over six human studies) were 16.7% for conventional sinc excitation, 13.3% for RF shimming, and 7.6% for parallel excitation. This work demonstrates that excitations with parallel RF systems can provide slice selection with spatially uniform FAs at high field strengths with only a small pulse-duration penalty. (c) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                8505245
                5733
                Magn Reson Med
                Magn Reson Med
                Magnetic resonance in medicine
                0740-3194
                1522-2594
                4 February 2018
                14 September 2017
                May 2018
                01 May 2019
                : 79
                : 5
                : 2833-2841
                Affiliations
                Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
                Author notes
                Corresponding Author: Natalia Gudino, Advanced MRI Section, LFMI, NINDS, 10 Center Drive, Bld. 10, B1D728, Bethesda, MD 20892-1065, natalia.gudino@ 123456nih.gov
                Article
                PMC5839114 PMC5839114 5839114 nihpa928554
                10.1002/mrm.26916
                5839114
                28905426
                70dd64e6-6272-40de-98e3-4bc99fdcc25f
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                high field MRI,parallel transmission and safety,RF monitoring,RF amplifiers

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