Shaping and timing gradient pulses to reduce MRI acoustic noise

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 546-553

  Segbers, Marcel ^a   Rizzo Sierra, Carlos V ^b   Duifhuis, Hendrikus ^b   Hoogduin, Johannes M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise reduction; fMRI; Gradient noise; Silent imaging; Soft pulses

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; NOISE ABATEMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ACOUSTIC RESPONSE; FMRI; GRADIENT NOISE; LINEAR-RESPONSE THEORY; OVERALL SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SOFT PULSES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL REDUCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 77955115394     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22366     Document Type: Article

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