Dissertation/ Thesis

Magnetic resonance technologies based on reverse polarization for image-guided interventions

Bibliographic Details
Title: Magnetic resonance technologies based on reverse polarization for image-guided interventions
Authors: Çelik, Haydar
Publication Year: 2010
Collection: Bilkent University: Institutional Repository
Subject Terms: Magnetic resonance imaging, interventional MRI, catheter tracking, fiducial marker, inductively coupled RF (ICRF) coil, transmit array system, birdcage coil, WN185 .C45 2010
Description: Cataloged from PDF version of article. ; Includes bibliographical references leaves 83-87. ; In this PhD dissertation, we presented four magnetic resonance (MR) technologies established upon reverse polarization for image guided interventions. The first three studies are based on tracking interventional devices, such as catheters, biopsy needles, and guidewires. The interventional devices cannot be seen using MRI without markers, coils, or extra devices. Our studies utilize different imaging modalities in order to obtain positional information of the interventional devices. The last study is a novel inductively coupled radio frequency birdcage coil design, which is a miniaturized version of a widely used volume coil. The new design can be used for prostate biopsy or imaging intestines. The reverse polarization is a mode of magnetic field that is not sensitive to anatomy signal. Therefore, it had been useless until the introduction of the reverse polarization concept. Using a linearly polarized inductively coupled radio frequency (ICRF) coil enables the reverse polarization mode, because a linearly polarized signal consists of both forward and reverse polarization signals. As a result, building the ICRF coil to interventional devices paves the way of using this method in interventional MRI. Performances of developed technologies were tested in phantom, animal, and volunteer studies. We believe that the studies explained in this dissertation contribute to obtaining better imaging systems. ; Çelik, Haydar
Document Type: thesis
File Description: 87 leaves, illustrations; application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: https://hdl.handle.net/11693/15333
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/11693/15333
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Accession Number: edsbas.49BA9083
Database: BASE
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