Insight into RF power requirements and B1 field homogeneity for human MRI via rigorous FDTD approach

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1235-1247

  Ibrahim, Tamer S ^a,b,c,d,e   Tang, Lin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

B1 field homogeneity; FDTD modeling; High field MRI; Optimization; RF coil; RF power requirements; Transmit array

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 34249889042     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20919     Document Type: Article

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