MRI coil design using boundary-element method with regularization technique: A numerical calculation study

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1052-1059

  Shou, Guofa ^a   Xia, Ling ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Zhu, Minhua ^a   Li, Yu ^b   Crozier, Stuart ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biplanar gradient coil; Boundary element method; Radio frequency phased array coil; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

BIPLANAR GRADIENT COIL; GRADIENT COIL; PHASED ARRAY COILS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE; SAILING VESSELS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77949847979     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2037753     Document Type: Article

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