Routine testing of magnetic field homogeneity on clinical MRI systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4299-4306

  Chen, Hua Hsuan ^a   Boykin, Rex D ^a   Clarke, Geoffrey D ^a   Gao, Jia Hong T ^a,b   Roby III, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MANUFACTURE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHANTOMS;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; FREQUENCY MAPPING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; MAGNETIC FIELD HOMOGENEITY; MAIN MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; SPHERICAL VOLUME;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33750548427     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2359229     Document Type: Article

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