Local specific absorption rate control for parallel transmission by virtual observation points

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1468-1476

  Eichfelder, Gabriele ^a   Gebhardt, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

local specific absorption rate; parallel transmission; pTx; SAR; semidefinite programming; vector optimization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RADIOFREQUENCY EXCITATIONS; SEMI-DEFINITE PROGRAMMING; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; VECTOR OPTIMIZATIONS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 80054808213     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22927     Document Type: Article

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