Reduction of implant RF heating through modification of transmit coil electric field

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1305-1313

  Eryaman, Yigitcan ^a   Akin, Burak ^a   Atalar, Ergin ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

implant heating; RF heating; safety of MRI; transmit RF coils

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEATING;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RF COIL; RF HEATING; RF PULSE; RF TRANSMIT COILS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEATING; IMPLANT; IMPLANT FRIENDLY COIL; IMPLANT FRIENDLY HOMOGENEOUS COIL; LINEAR BIRDCAGE COIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATURE BIRDCAGE COIL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REDUCTION; SAFETY; TRANSMIT COIL ELECTRIC FIELD;

EID: 79954622959     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22724     Document Type: Article

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