Analysis of transient eddy currents in MRI using a cylindrical FDTD method

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1924-1936

  Trakic, Adnan ^b   Wang, Hua ^b   Liu, Feng ^b   López, Héctor Sánchez ^b   Crozier, Stuart ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

B 0 shift; Downscaling speed of light; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Symmetric and asymmetric gradient coils; Transient eddy currents

Indexed keywords

B0-SHIFT; DOWNSCALING SPEED OF LIGHT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC GRADIENT COILS; TRANSIENT EDDY CURRENTS;

CRYOSTATS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SWITCHING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 33748593119     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2006.874000     Document Type: Article

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