Ultra fast electromagnetic field computations for RF multi-transmit techniques in high field MRI

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1253-1264

  Van Den Bergen, Bob ^a   Stolk, Christiaan C ^b   Van Den Berg, Jan Bouwe ^c   Lagendijk, Jan J W ^a   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHODS; BASIS FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD COMPUTATIONS; FDTD CALCULATIONS; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HIGH-FIELD MRIS; HIGH-SPEED; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC EXCITATION FIELDS; ON-LINE CONTROLS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATES; ULTRA FASTS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 63649096049     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/010     Document Type: Article

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