Determination of Electric Conductivity and Local SAR Via B1 Mapping

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1365-1374

  Katscher, Ulrich ^a   Findeklee, Christian ^a   Vernickel, Peter ^a   Nehrke, Kay ^a   Voigt, Tobias ^b   Dössel, Olaf ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

B1 mapping; electric conductivity; electric impedance tomography; local SAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954683399     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2015757     Document Type: Article

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