Consideration of physiological response in numerical models of temperature during MRI of the human head

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1303-1308

  Wang, Zhangwei ^a   Lin, James C ^b   Vaughan, J Thomas ^c   Collins, Christopher M ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head; Model; Physiology; SAR; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 55749107893     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21556     Document Type: Article

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