Numerical study of currents in workers induced by body-motion around high-ultrahigh field MRI magnets

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1261-1277

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human models; ICNIRP; MRI; Quasistatic finite difference; Safety regulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MAGNET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATION HAZARD; SIMULATION;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MEDICAL STAFF; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 35848968025     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21160     Document Type: Article

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