Electric fields induced in the human body by time-varying magnetic field gradients in MRI: Numerical calculations and correlation analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2337-2353

  Bencsik, Martin ^a   Bowtell, Richard ^b   Bowley, Roger ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BODY MODELS; GRADIENT COILS; INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDUCTANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPOSURE; HEAD; HEART; HIP; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34249051660     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/9/001     Document Type: Article

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