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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2017 Feb 10;30(5):10.1002/nbm.3694. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3694

Table 2.

Maximum temperature, maximum 1g SAR, maximum 10g SAR, and NRMSE resulting from RF pulses designed with various strict constraints for Ella virtual body model in hip transmit array for 6 minutes of RF exposure.

Pulse Design Type Unconstrained 10g SAR Constrained Temperature Constrained
Maximum local temperature (°C) 39.9 38.1 39.0
Maximum 1g SAR (W/kg) 75.9 19.9 46.9
Maximum 10g SAR (W/kg) 30.1 10.0 20.7
NRMSE (%) 27.0 32.2 27.5