A theoretical comparison of two optimization methods for radiofrequency drive schemes in high frequency MRI resonators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 5281-5291

  Liu, Feng ^a   Beck, Barbara L ^b   Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey R ^b   Blackband, Stephen J ^b,c   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; RESONATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HOMOGENEITY; RADIOFREQUENCY (RF) VOLUME COILS; RESONATOR STRUCTURES; SENSITIVITY PROFILES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 27644503224     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/22/005     Document Type: Article

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