Resistive homogeneous MRI magnet design by matrix subset selection

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1221-1229

  Morgan, Patrick N ^a   Conolly, Steven M ^b   Macovski, Albert ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Homogeneous; Magnet design; Resistive

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETS;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; HARMONIC EXPANSION; HOMOGENEOUS; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHMS; LINEARLY INDEPENDENTS; MAGNET DESIGNS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; RESISTIVE;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0032993806     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199906)41:6<1221::AID-MRM19>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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