Using the vector potential in evaluating the likelihood of peripheral nerve stimulation due to switched magnetic field gradients

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 405-410

  Bencsik, Martin ^a   Bowtell, Richard ^a   Bowley, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPHERICAL CONDUCTORS; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES; TIME-VARYING MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NERVE STIMULATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PREDICTION; TISSUE;

EID: 0043093783     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10520     Document Type: Article

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