Characterization of acoustic noise and magnetic field fluctuations in a 4 T whole-body MRI scanner

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 459-473

  Mechefske, Chris K ^a   Wu, Yuhua ^a   Rutt, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOSTATS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GRADIENT COILS; HIGH-SPEED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS; SCANNERS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 6344261431     PISSN: 08883270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mssp.2000.1383     Document Type: Article

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