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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Imaging
    • Electromagnetism
    • Computational Science

    Background:

    • Inhomogeneities in radio frequency magnetic fields degrade magnetic resonance (MR) image quality.
    • High-permittivity pads can improve MR image quality by tailoring these fields.
    • Designing optimal pads is complex and application-specific.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose an efficient and systematic method for designing dielectric pads.
    • To reduce the complexity of the pad design problem.
    • To enable the tailoring of radio frequency magnetic fields for improved MR imaging.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a projection-based model order reduction technique to decrease problem dimensionality.
    • Integrated the reduced-order model into an optimization framework.
    • Defined a desired field in a specific region of interest for optimization.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully developed a systematic optimization method for dielectric pad design.
    • Validated the method by designing a pad for 7 Tesla (T) cerebellum imaging.
    • Demonstrated the effectiveness of the designed pad in enhancing MR image quality through measurements.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers an efficient approach to designing dielectric pads for MR imaging.
    • This systematic optimization enhances the quality of MR images by improving field homogeneity.
    • The technique is applicable to specific imaging scenarios, such as high-field brain imaging.