Toward individualized SAR models and in vivo validation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1767-1776

  Homann, H ^a   Bornert P ^b   Eggers, H ^b   Nehrke, K ^b   Dossel O ^a   Graesslin, I ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

individualized body models; SAR; validation; water fat separation

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BODY MODELS; HUMAN BODY MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; VALIDATION;

TISSUE;

WATER;

ABSORPTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 81355147745     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22948     Document Type: Article

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