Electromagnetic and thermal modeling of SAR and temperature fields in tissue due to an RF decoupling coil

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-192

  Hand, Jeffrey W ^a,e   Lau, Raymond W ^b   Lagendijk, Jan J W ^c   Ling, Junxiao ^d   Burl, Mike ^d   Young, Ian R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Microwave Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d Picker International Inc   (United States)

^e HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FDTD; MR safety; RF absorbed power; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TISSUE;

ABSORBED POWER; BIOHEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMAL MODEL;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIA; LEG; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TISSUE;

EID: 0032765213     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199907)42:1<183::AID-MRM24>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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