An MRI-dedicated parallel FDTD scheme

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-161

  Wang, Hua ^a   Trakic, Adnan ^a   Xia, Ling ^b   Liu, Feng ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FDTD; Message Passing Interface (MPI); MRI; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548279307     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20092     Document Type: Article

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