High-field magnetic resonance imaging with reduced field/tissue RF artefacts - A modeling study using hybrid MoM/FEM and FDTD technique

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 628-633

  Li, Bing Keong ^b   Liu, Feng ^b   Crozier, Stuart ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite element methods (FEMs); Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Moment methods

Indexed keywords

ANTIPODAL SIGNAL PROFILES; GENERALIZED AUTOCALIBRATING PARTIALLY PARALLEL ACQUISITIONS (GRAPPA); HUMAN HEAD MODEL; TRANSCEIVE PHASED ARRAY HEAD COILS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TRANSCEIVERS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33947244465     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2006.884539     Document Type: Article

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