Burn injury by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 293-297

  Eising, Ernst G ^a   Hughes, Justin ^b   Nolte, Frank ^b   Jentzen, Walter ^a   Bockisch, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Attorney Office Chambers   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burn injury; Forensic problems; MR Safety; MRI; SAR

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL VALUES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; BURN INJURY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HIGH FIELD MRI; HIGH-FIELD; ISOLATING MATERIALS; LUMBAR SPINES; MR SCANNERS; MRI SCANNERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF-POWER; SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS; SKIN CONTACT; SMALL REGION; STANDARD PROTOCOLS; T-SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESONANCE; SCANNING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SEROMA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SWELLING; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; BURNS, ELECTRIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE;

EID: 77954111489     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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