Quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance imaging susceptibility artifacts caused by neurosurgical biomaterials: Comparison of 0.5, 1.5, and 3.0 Tesla magnetic fields

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 395-398

  Matsuura, Hideki ^a   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ogasawara, Kuniaki ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Konno, Hiromu ^a   Kuzu, Yasutaka ^a   Nishimoto, Hideaki ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Magnetic field strength; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurosurgical implants

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COBALT; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTIFACTS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CERAMICS; COBALT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TITANIUM;

EID: 24744471226     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.395     Document Type: Article

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