Numerical solution for an inverse MRI problem using a regularised boundary element method

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 658-675

  Marin, Liviu ^a   Power, Henry ^a   Bowtell, Richard W ^a   Cobos Sanchez, Clemente ^a   Becker, Adib A ^a   Glover, Paul ^a   Jones, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coil design; Divergence free boundary element method (BEM); Electromagnetism; Inverse problem; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Regularisation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

COIL DESIGN; DIVERGENCE-FREE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD (BEM); STREAM FUNCTION METHOD; TIKHONOV REGULARISATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 44949180889     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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