Measurement of electrical current density distribution within the tissues of the head by magnetic resonance imaging

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-170

  Gamba, H R ^a,b   Delpy, D T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Biomedical Engineering

^c UCL

Author keywords

Cerebral electrical impedance; Current density distribution; Electrical impedance; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

CEREBRAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HEAD; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICITY; HEAD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SWINE;

EID: 0032032834     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510738     Document Type: Article

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