Calculations of EM interactions with biological tissue: Magnetic resonance imaging at ultra high field

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 138-144

  Ibrahim, Tamer S ^a,b   Lee, Robert ^b   Baertlein, Brian A ^b   Abduljalil, Amir ^a   Robitaille, Pierre Marie L ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TISSUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 0035388635     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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