Biomagnetism

The SQUID Handbook: Applications of SQUIDs and SQUID Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 269-389

  Vrba, Jiri ^a   Nenonen, Jukka ^b   Trahms, Lutz ^c  

^a VSM MedTech Ltd   (Canada)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomagnetism; Gastromagnetometry; Liver susceptometry; Magnetic relaxation immunoassays; Magnetocardiography; Magnetoencephalography; Magnetoneurography; Quasistatic field magnetometry; SQUID applications; SQUID systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749505874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527609956.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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