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Metamaterial Magnetic Sheet at 3.7-T MRI for Animal Imaging

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Animal models have been utilized for many decades to examine human diseases and symptoms via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. To avoid the fatal effects of the strong static magnetic field (B0) when imaging the mouse brain at higher Tesla values in MRI, i.e., 7-T, we propose a compact metamaterial magnetic sheet which can improve the image resolution for simulation of the mouse brain even at lower Tesla values in MRI systems. The magnetic sheet operates at 3.7-T MRI working frequency and provides a passband within its interfaces to restore the formation of scattering of an evanescent radio-frequency (RF) field radiating from the MRI gradient coils towards the sheet. We show in the optimized simulated test bed setup that the magnetic sheet localizes and adjusts the response of the evanescent RF field and improves the transient transverse magnetic field B1 and signal-to-noise ratio at the designated region of interest, i.e., mouse brain (Mb), where B1 at the mouse brain is the response of the static magnetic field B0 generated by the magnetic resonance gradient coils. The unique concept proposed here is that negative permeability (−μ) controls the metamaterial magnetic sheet to improve image resolution inside the human brain without increasing B0 intensity at the brain, in order to avoid thermal heating of the brain tissues.

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The authors are grateful for the partial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFCs 61271085).

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China

    Hassan Ali

  2. Ningbo Scientific Research and Design Institute of Environmental Protection, Liyuan South Road 219, Ningbo, 315200, Zhejiang, China

    Xin Xu

  3. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Haibin Ni

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Ali, H., Xu, X. & Ni, H. Metamaterial Magnetic Sheet at 3.7-T MRI for Animal Imaging. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 7495–7501 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08512-0

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