Toward a wire medium endoscope for MRI imaging

Metamaterials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-99

  Radu, Xavier ^a   Garray, Didier ^b   Craeye, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Sirris   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collimation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Wire medium

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATION; CURVED WIRE; MEDICAL IMAGES; SIMULATION RESULT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIRE MEDIUM;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

WIRE;

EID: 70349786360     PISSN: 18731988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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