High-bandwidth high-power gradient driver for magnetic resonance imaging with digital control

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1087-1091

  Sabate, Juan ^a   Garces, Luis ^a   Szczesny, Paul ^a   Li, Qiming ^a,b   Wirth, William F ^a,c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (China)

^c GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CONTROL; COMMAND SIGNAL; DIGITAL CONTROL; GRADIENT FIELDS;

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE QUALITY; PRODUCT DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33745007754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2005.1453131     Document Type: Article

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