SAR and Temperature Safety Assessment on Patient Specific Models Generated with a Registration Method

Patient specific models are required to improve the accuracy of the simulations to perform safety assessment related to interaction of the RF fields with the body tissues. One registration method allows non-rigid transformations: this can be used to reshape a numerical body model to match the images of a patient, and generate a model similar to the shape of the patient. We performed SAR and temperature simulations to evaluate the ability of the registered model to perform a patient-specific safety assessment. The evaluation has been successful: the SAR and temperature patterns were corresponding to the ones of the target anatomy.