EPR spectrometer for clinical applications

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1317-1320

  Salikhov, I ^a   Walczak, T ^a   Lesniewski, P ^a   Khan, N ^a   Iwasaki, A ^a   Comi, R ^b   Buckey, J ^b   Swartz, H M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Dosimetry; EPR; ESR; Oximetry; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZING RADIATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERMANENT MAGNETS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONATORS;

CLINICAL; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL OPERATIONS; EPR MEASUREMENTS; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN BODIES; OXIMETRY; RF AMPLIFIERS;

SPECTROMETERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNET; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIMETRY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 27644432191     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20689     Document Type: Article

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