Design of an MR-compatible piezoelectric actuator for MR elastography

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 239-254

  Uffmann, Kai ^a   Abicht, Claus ^b   Grote, Wolfgang ^a   Quick, Harald H ^a   Ladd, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration sensor; Actuator; Elasticity; Elastography; MRI; Piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CERAMICS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; SENSOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 18444409631     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.10045     Document Type: Article

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