Recording of EEG during fMRI experiments: Patient safety

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 943-952

  Lemieux, Louis ^a   Allen, Philip J ^b   Franconi, Florence ^a   Symms, Mark R ^a   Fish, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronencephalography; Field measurements; Funcional MRI; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CURRENT-LIMITING RESISTORS; ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); ELECTRODE RESISTANCE; ELECTRONENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INDUCED ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030702136     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380614     Document Type: Article

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