E-coil: An inverse boundary element method for a quasi-static problem

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3087-3100

  Sanchez, Clemente Cobos ^a   Garcia, Salvador Gonzalez ^a   Power, Henry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; COIL DESIGNS; FIELD GRADIENT; GRADIENT COIL; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INVERSE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; QUASISTATIC PROBLEMS; SAFETY CONCERNS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77952376124     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/11/007     Document Type: Article

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