Challenges for high field clinical MRI

2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 575-578

  Webb, A G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical MRI; High frequency; Quadrature excitation; RF distribution; Transmit arrays

Indexed keywords

B1 FIELD; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; HIGH FIELD; HIGH FREQUENCY; POWER DEPOSITION; REGULATORY GUIDELINES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77955215846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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