Longitudinal gradient coil optimization in the presence of transient eddy currents

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1119-1130

  Trakic, A ^a   Liu, F ^a   Sanchez Lopez, H ^a   Wang, H ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryostat; Eddy currents; FDTD; Gradient; MRI

Indexed keywords

CRYOSTATS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

COMPENSATION METHOD; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; SECONDARY CURRENTS; SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL PERFORMANCE; TRANSIENT EDDY CURRENTS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

ALUMINUM; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT COIL; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; TOTAL FIELD SCATTERED FIELD; VESSEL;

EID: 34250353993     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21243     Document Type: Article

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