Electromagnetic fields inside a lossy, multilayered spherical head phantom excited by MRI coils: Models and methods

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1835-1851

  Liu, Feng ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSMITTERS;

MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENTS; TRANSMITTER COILS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 2942579258     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/10/001     Document Type: Article

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