GPU-accelerated FDTD modeling of radio-frequency field-tissue interactions in high-field MRI

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1789-1796

  Chi, Jieru ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Weber, Ewald ^b   Li, Yu ^b   Crozier, Stuart ^b  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); graphics processing unit (GPU); high field; MRI; parallel computing; RF coil

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); HIGH-FIELD; MRI; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RF COIL;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS;

EID: 79956337970     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2116020     Document Type: Article

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