Exposure of workers to pulsed gradients in MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1236-1254

  Crozier, Stuart ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Trakic, Adnan ^a   Liu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Gradient coils; ICNIRP; IEEE; MRI; Quasistatic finite difference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIMULATION;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 35848961010     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21162     Document Type: Article

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