A safe transmission line for MRI

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1094-1102

  Vernickel, Peter ^a,b   Schulz, Volkmar ^a   Weiss, Steffen ^a   Gleich, Bernhard ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b TuTech Innovation GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheter; Heating; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Safety; Specific absorption rate (SAR); Transmission line

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CABLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; HEATING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

CATHETER; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; POWER MATCHING; SIGNAL ATTENUATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CATHETER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GEOMETRY; HEATING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC WIRING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS;

EID: 20444466553     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.846713     Document Type: Article

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