Flexible magnetoinductive ring MRI detector: Design for invariant nearest-neighbour coupling

Metamaterials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Syms, R R A ^a   Floume, T ^a   Young, I R ^a   Solymar, L ^a   Rea, M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birdcage coil; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetoinductive wave; Metamaterial; Ring resonator

Indexed keywords

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; FLEXIBLE HINGES; MAGNETOINDUCTIVE WAVES; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR COUPLING; PARALLEL WIRES; PIVOT POINT; POLYGONAL RINGS; RELATIVE ROTATION; RF DETECTORS; RING RESONATOR;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77952549169     PISSN: 18731988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metmat.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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