Acoustic noise characteristics of a 4 Telsa MRI scanner

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 388-397

  More, Shashikant R ^a   Lim, Teik C ^a   Li, Mingfeng ^a   Holland, Christy K ^a   Boyce, Suzanne E ^b   Lee, Jing Huei ^a,b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Audible; MRI; Noise; Sound; Time frequency

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; EAR; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRIC CURRENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOUTH; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; TIME; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33644845641     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20526     Document Type: Article

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