Noise analysis for multi-slice radio frequency current density imaging

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1907-1910

  Wang, Dinghui ^b   DeMonte, Tim P ^a,c   Joy, Michael L ^a,b   Nachman, Adrian I ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Field Metrica Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LARMOR FREQUENCY; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCY CURRENT DENSITY IMAGING (RF CDI);

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047129243     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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