Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Cause Focal Heating in a Nonuniform Phantom

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1324-1327

  Davis, Peter L ^a   Shang, Charles ^a   Talagala, Lalith ^a   Pasculle, A William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HEATING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIO; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

FOCAL HEATING; NONUNIFORM PHANTOMS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGAR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0027771352     PISSN: 0018-9294     EISSN: 1558-2531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.250588     Document Type: Article

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