Temperature increase in the fetus due to radio frequency exposure during magnetic resonance scanning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Gowland, P A ^a   De Wilde, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREGNANT WOMAN; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TEMPERATURE INCREASES; TEMPERATURE RISES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 58149235037     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/21/L01     Document Type: Article

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