Central brightening due to constructive interference with, without, and despite dielectric resonance

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-196

  Collins, Christopher M ^a   Liu, Wanzhan ^a   Schreiber, Weston ^a   Yang, Qing X ^a   Smith, Michael B ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

B1; Calculations; Dielectric resonance; Interference; MRI; Surface coil

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIELECTRIC RESONANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 12744262814     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20245     Document Type: Article

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