A Green's function approach to local rf heating in interventional MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 826-832

  Yeung, Christopher J ^a   Atalar, Ergin ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interventional MRI; MRI saftey; Rf heating; SAR

Indexed keywords

INVARIANCE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

BIO-HEAT EQUATIONS; CURRENT REGULATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION APPROACHES; INTERVENTIONAL; RF HEATING; SHIFT INVARIANT SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

HEATING;

ARTICLE; HEATING; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TISSUE PERFUSION;

EID: 0035017776     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1367860     Document Type: Article

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