Extended Field of View in Magnetic Particle Imaging

Magnetic Particle Imaging is a new imaging modality, capable of high spatial as well as temporal resolution. Intensive research to develop high resolution scanners with a large field of view (FOV) is still necessary, because increasing amount of data in the FOV influences the reconstruction effort. This problem has to be solved and optimized. Further-more, the size of the FOV is limited by medical factors such as specific absorptions rates and peripheral nerve stimula-tion as well as technical factors like cooling of coils. This work discusses two approaches to enlarge the FOV by split-ting the region of interest (ROI) into patches.