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@ARTICLE{Jia:170518,
author = {F. Jia and S. Littin and P. Amrein and H. Yu and A. W.
Magill$^*$ and T. A. Kuder$^*$ and S. Bickelhaupt$^*$ and F.
Laun and M. E. Ladd$^*$ and M. Zaitsev},
title = {{D}esign of a high-performance non-linear gradient coil for
diffusion weighted {MRI} of the breast.},
journal = {Journal of magnetic resonance},
volume = {331},
issn = {1090-7807},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2021-01977},
pages = {107052},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in the female breast is a
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that complements
clinical routine protocols, and that might provide an
independent diagnostic value for specific clinical tasks in
breast imaging. To further improve specificity of DWI in the
breast, stronger and faster diffusion weighting is
advantageous. Here, a dedicated gradient coil is designed,
targeted at diffusion weighting in the female breast, with
the peak gradient magnitude exceeding that of the current
clinical MR scanners by an order of a magnitude. Design of
application-tailored gradient coils in MRI has recently
attracted increased attention. With the target application
in mind, the gradient coil is designed on an irregularly
shaped semi-open current-carrying surface. Due to the coil
former closely fitting the non-spherical target region,
non-linear encoding fields become particularly advantageous
for achieving locally exceptionally high gradient strengths.
As breast tissue has a predominantly isotropic cellular
microstructure, the direction of the diffusion-weighting
gradient may be allowed to vary within the target volume.
However, due to the quadratic dependency of the b-factor on
the gradient strength, variation of the gradient magnitude
should be carefully controlled. To achieve the above design
goals the corresponding multi-objective optimization problem
is reformulated as a constrained optimization, allowing for
flexible and precise control of the coil properties. A novel
constraint is proposed, limiting gradient magnitude
variation within every slice while allowing for variations
in both the direction of the gradient within the slice and
the magnitude across the slices. These innovations enable
the design of a unilateral coil for diffusion weighting in
the female breast with local gradient strengths exceeding 1
T/m with highly homogeneous diffusion weighting for imaging
in the coronal slice orientation.},
keywords = {Diffusion weighted imaging (Other) / Gradient coil design
(Other) / Magnetic resonance imaging (Other) / Non-linear
spatial encoding magnetic fields (Other)},
cin = {E020 / E250},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E020-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)E250-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:34478997},
doi = {10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107052},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/170518},
}