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1Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Purpose:
Calculation of static magnetic field (B0 ) inhomogeneity maps of high-resolution susceptibility models by means of convolution with dipole kernels often encounters limitations in computer memory (RAM) for large input data matrices. In many applications, only a small portion of the full volume of the computer model is a volume of interest (VOI) or a susceptibility perturbation source. This work presents a VOI-based method to significantly reduce the computer memory usage for such applications.
Theory And Methods:
The VOI-based method is presented and compared with the conventional method for calculation of the B0 field in the brain and heart of a human body model in terms of calculation speed, memory requirement, and calculation error relative to the full model results.
Results:
Use of the VOI-based method significantly reduced memory usage in the human body model calculations over the conventional method without loss of accuracy and with comparable calculation speed.
Conclusion:
The proposed method can be valuable for rapid calculation of B0 distributions on standard computer hardware for applications such as subject-specific B0 field calculations derived from anatomic scans. Magn Reson Med 75:2473-2480, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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