Analysis and design of a coupled coaxial line TEM resonator for magnetic resonance imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2093-2099

  Benahmed, Nasreddine ^a   Feham, Mohammed ^a   Khelif, M'Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESONATORS;

COUPLED COAXIAL LINE; TEM RESONATOR; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC (TEM) RESONATOR;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33645546910     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/8/009     Document Type: Article

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