A 37 channel dc squid magnetometer system

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 2793-2796

  Ryhanen T ^b   Cantor, R ^a   Drung, D ^a   Erne S N ^a   Matthies, K P ^a   Peters, M ^a   Scheer, H J ^a   Hahlbohm, H D ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM;

BIOMAGNETISM; DC SQUID; GRADIOMETERS;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 0026121897     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.133788     Document Type: Article

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