Composition of MRI phantom equivalent to human tissues

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3199-3208

  Kato, Hirokazu ^a   Kuroda, Masahiro ^a   Yoshimura, Koichi ^a   Yoshida, Atsushi ^a   Hanamoto, Katsumi ^a   Kawasaki, Shoji ^a   Shibuya, Koichi ^a   Kanazawa, Susumu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric property; Hyperthermia; MRI; Phantom; Relaxation times

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RELAXATION TIME; SODIUM AZIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE;

CONDUCTIVITY MODIFIERS; DISTILLED WATER; FREQUENCY RANGES; GELLING AGENTS; HYPERTHERMIA; NACL CONCENTRATION; REINFORCING AGENT; RELAXATION TIMES;

PHANTOMS;

AGAROSE; CARRAGEENAN; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; GELLING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM NITRATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CAG PHANTOM; CAGN PHANTOM; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; GEL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHERMIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELAXATION TIME; RESEARCH; STRENGTH; TRUNK;

EID: 27244438481     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2047807     Document Type: Article

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