Temperature and SAR Calculations for a Human Head Within Volume and Surface Coils at 64 and 300 MHz

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 650-656

  Collins, Christopher M ^a   Liu, Wanzhan ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^a   Gruetter, Rolf ^b   Vaughan, J Thomas ^b   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b   Smith, Michael B ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculations; MRI; Safety; SAR; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HEAD; HEAT INJURY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; SPECIFIC ENERGY ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; TISSUE INJURY;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 2442570617     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20041     Document Type: Article

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