The suppression of selected acoustic frequencies in MRI

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-200

  Shou, Xingxian ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Derakhshan, Jamal ^b,c   Eagan, Timothy ^d   Baig, Tanvir ^e   Shvartsman, Shmaryu ^a,d   Duerk, Jeffrey ^b,c   Brown, Robert ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d ViewRay Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Gradient pulse optimization; MRI system; Vibrating string

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; ACOUSTIC NOISE SPECTRUM; ACOUSTIC SPECTRA; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; GENERAL APPROACH; IMPULSIVE FORCES; LINEAR-RESPONSE THEORY; MRI SYSTEM; PULSE OPTIMIZATION; PULSE PROFILE; PULSE SEQUENCE; VIBRATING STRING;

EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RESONANCE; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 70449704062     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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