Numerical modeling interaction of RF field in MRI with a pregnant female model

2005 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 389-392

  Strydom, Marie L ^a   Caputa, Kris ^b   Stuchly, Maria A ^a,b   Gowland, Penny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33744992013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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