Title :
An object-oriented designed finite-difference time-domain simulator for electromagnetic analysis and design in MRI
Author :
Wei, Q. ; Crozier, S. ; Xia, L. ; Liu, F.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
Abstract :
This paper presents a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulator for electromagnetic analysis and design applications in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is intended to be a complete FDTD model of an MRI system including all RF and low frequency field generating units and electrical models of the patient. The framework has been constructed with the assistance of object-oriented concepts. The detailed design procedure is described and the numerical method has been verified against analytical solutions for simple cases and also applied to real field calculations. The simulated results demonstrated that the proposed FDTD scheme can be used to analyze large-scale computational electromagnetic problems in MRI engineering.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; finite difference time-domain analysis; medical image processing; object-oriented methods; FDTD model; MRI engineering; analytical solution; computational electromagnetic problem; electromagnetic analysis; finite-difference time-domain simulator; frequency field generating unit; magnetic resonance imaging; numerical method; object-oriented concept; patient electrical model; Analytical models; Computational electromagnetics; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic analysis; Finite difference methods; Large-scale systems; Magnetic resonance imaging; Object oriented modeling; Radio frequency; Time domain analysis; Electromagnetic field; FDTD; MRI; human model; object-oriented design;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403360
