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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2017 Jun 30;10:95–121. doi: 10.1109/RBME.2017.2722420

Table VI.

Computed SAR values from different sources (W/kg) given 1 μT B1+ field (at the coil isocenter).

Ref # Method Model Coil landmark Whole-body SAR Eq. (2) Max. non-averaged local SAR Eq.(1) Max. 1g local SAR Eq. (3) Max. 10g local SAR Eq. (3)
Ref. [189] FDTD 5 mm voxel Voxel Vis. Human Male 122kg [189], 128 MHz Abdominal 0.58 22.78 11.90 8.79
Ref. [189] FDTD 3.5 mm voxel Voxel Vis. Human Male 122 kg [189], 128 MHz Abdominal 0.57 24.91 11.63 6.98
Ref. [189] FDTD 2.5 mm voxel Voxel Vis. Human Male 122 kg [189], 128 MHz Abdominal 0.54 35.68 13.76 8.88
Ref. [193] FDTD 3 mm voxel Voxel Vis. Human Female 128 MHz Heart Normalized to 0.15 (present report) NA 2.46-4.11
Varies with coil type
1.23-2.03
Varies with coil type
Ref. [193] FDTD 3 mm voxel Voxel Vis. Human Male 128 MHz Pelvic Normalized to 0.54 (Ref. [189]) NA 8.91-14.8
Varies with coil type
4.21-6.86
Varies with coil type
Ref. [194] FDTD Voxel size unknown Voxel Vis. Human Female, 64 MHz Heart Normalized to 0.15 (author’s study) NA NA 3.35
Ref. [195] FDTD Voxel size 2mm Voxel Nagaoka Female 64 MHz Abdominal 0.13 NA 3.2 2.1
Ref. [195] FDTD Voxel size 2mm Voxel Vis. Human Male 122 kg 64 MHz Abdominal 0.18 NA 3.6 2.4
Ref. [195] FDTD Voxel size 2mm Voxel Nagaoka Female 128 MHz Abdominal 0.24 NA 5.3 3.9
Ref. [195] FDTD Voxel size 2mm Voxel Vis. Human Male 122 kg 128 MHz Abdominal 0.31 NA 5.2 3.9
Authors’ study FEM 8 adaptive passes (ANSYS) CAD VHP-Female 3.0 [55],[56] 88 kg, 64 MHz Shoulder/heart (top of vert. T7) 0.15 12.0 3.05 1.37