Simulating the effects of time-varying magnetic fields with a realistic simulated scanner

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1014-1021

  Drobnjak, Ivana ^a   Pell, Gaby S ^b   Jenkinson, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; MRI simulations; Neuronal current imaging; Transient magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONDUCTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955414952     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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