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An in vivo automated shimming method taking into account shim current constraints.

ABSTRACT: Many in vivo imaging techniques require magnetic field homogeneity in the volume of interest. Shim coils of the second and third order spherical harmonics have been used successfully to compensate for complicated field variations caused by the human anatomy itself. The available currents of these coils are invariably limited. In this note we demonstrate that these limits significantly affect the optimal shim condition. We propose an automated in vivo shimming method for arbitrary volumes of interest using 3-dimensional (3D) field maps. This method is a modification of previous works using least-squares criteria. The main difference is that a constrained optimization is performed in vivo under the current limits of the shim coils, which improved the field homogeneity significantly over simple truncations of the least-squares solutions. This shimming method was used with head scans of five normal volunteers on a 4.0 tesla scanner. A fast double-echo sequence was used to obtain field maps, and a new field uniformity measure was derived for this method. The field mapping sequence was tested against a standard single-echo Dixon sequence used by previous investigators, and the stability of the shimming method was tested by repeated studies on the same subject.

SUBMITTER: Wen H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2896433 | biostudies-other | 1995 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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