WE-A5.1A: Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 
   | Session Type: Oral | 
   | Time: Wednesday, July 12, 08:00 - 11:00 | 
   | Location: Torrey Hills AB | 
   | Session Chairs: Ji Chen, University of Houston and Gregory Noetscher, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
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   | 08:00 - 08:20 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.1: IMPACTS OF RF SHIMMING ON LOCAL SAR CAUSED BY MRI 3T BIRDCAGE COIL NEAR FEMORAL PLATE IMPLANTS | 
   
  
    |          Qi Zeng, Ran Guo, Jianfeng Zheng, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States | 
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   | 08:20 - 08:40 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.2: METAMATERIAL LOOP BODY COIL ELEMENT FOR 10.5T MRI | 
   
  
    |          Vijayaraghavan Panda, Gregor Adriany, University of Minnesota, United States; Thomas Vaughan, Columbia University, United States; Anand Gopinath, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States | 
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   | 08:40 - 09:00 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.3: A NEW MEDICAL IMPLANT LEAD FOR 1.5 T, 3 T, AND 7 T MRI SYSTEMS | 
   
  
    |          Rupam Das, Hyoungsuk Yoo, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea | 
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   | 09:00 - 09:20 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.4: FAST PREDICTION OF MRI RF-INDUCED HEATING FOR IMPLANTABLE PLATE DEVICES USING NEURAL NETWORK | 
   
  
    |          Jianfeng Zheng, Rui Yang, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States | 
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   | 09:20 - 09:40 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.5: RF-INDUCED HEATING COMPARISON BETWEEN TEM AND BIRDCAGE COILS FOR CIRCULAR EXTERNAL FIXATOR | 
   
  
    |          Rui Yang, Jianfeng Zheng, Xin Huang, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States | 
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  | 09:40 - 10:00 Break | 
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   | 10:00 - 10:20 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.6: FLEXIBLE RF COIL ARRAY SYSTEM UTILIZING ELECTRO-TEXTILES FOR 3T MRI CAROTID ARTERY IMAGING | 
   
  
    |          Daisong Zhang, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles, United States | 
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   | 10:20 - 10:40 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.7: NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF RF-INDUCED HEATING FOR GAP AND PITCH VARIATION OF HELICAL STENT UNDER MRI | 
   
  
    |          Xiaohe Ji, Jianfeng Zheng, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States | 
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   | 10:40 - 11:00 | 
   |   WE-A5.1A.8: COMPARISON OF IN-VIVO AND IN-VITRO MRI RF HEATING FOR ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT AT 3 TESLA | 
   
  
    |          Ran Guo, Jianfeng Zheng, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States | 
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