Specific absorption rate studies of the parallel transmission of inner-volume excitations at 7T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1005-1018

  Zelinski, Adam C ^a,d   Angelone, Leonardo M ^b   Goyal, Vivek K ^a   Bonmassar, Giorgio ^b   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^a,c   Wald, Lawrence L ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD simulation; Multichannel transmit array; Parallel transmission; RF pulse design; RF safety; Specific absorption rate (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXCITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 53549128091     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21548     Document Type: Article

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