The spatial and temporal distortion of magnetic fields applied inside a magnetically shielded room

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-61

  Vesanen, Panu T ^a   Nieminen, Jaakko O ^a   Zevenhoven, Koos C J ^a   Dabek, Juhani ^a   Simola, Juha ^b   Sarvas, Jukka ^a   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Elekta Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eddy currents; magnetically shielded room; MEG; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; MAGNETICALLY SHIELDED ROOM; MATERIALS WITH HIGH PERMEABILITY; MEG; SPHERICAL MODELS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS; TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS; TIME CONSTANTS;

BIOMAGNETISM; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84855492848     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2167627     Document Type: Article

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