Theoretical and experimental investigation of the relationship among SAR, tissues and radio frequencies in MRI

Physica Medica

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 61-64

  Wang, Chunsheng ^a   Shen, Gary X ^a   Yuan, Jin ^a   Qu, Peng ^a   Wu, Bing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FDTD; RF safety; SAR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; BRAIN TISSUE; EXPERIMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 24944497993     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1120-1797(05)80020-1     Document Type: Article

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