Sound generation in gradient coil structures for MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 539-550

  Mansfield, Peter ^a   Glover, Paul M ^a,b   Beaumont, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Gradients; MRI; Noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

APPROXIMATE AGREEMENT; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION; GRADIENTS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MAGNETIC-FIELD AXIS; NOISE;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOUND;

EID: 0031899390     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910390406     Document Type: Article

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