Control characteristics of an automatic matching control system for in vivo EPR spectroscopy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 223-227

  Hirata, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasunori ^a   Takahashi, Tatsuhisa ^a   Luo, Zhi Wei ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disturbance rejection; Impedance matching; Negative feedback control; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RATS; SPECTROMETERS;

AUTOMATIC MATCHING; CONTROL CHARACTERISTICS; COUPLING CONTROLS; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STEADY STATE ERRORS; SYSTEM BANDWIDTH;

FEEDBACK;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEADY STATE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037586589     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10487     Document Type: Article

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