Simulations of high permittivity materials for 7 T neuroimaging and evaluation of a new barium titanate-based dielectric

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 912-918

  Teeuwisse, W M ^a   Brink, W M ^a   Haines, K N ^a   Webb, A G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

barium titanate; high field neuroimaging; high permittivity materials; MRI electromagnetic simulations; transmit field homogeneity

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETS; NEUROIMAGING; WAVE FILTERS;

FIELD HOMOGENEITY; HIGH FIELD; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; HIGH-PERMITTIVITY MATERIAL; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY;

PERMITTIVITY;

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; BARIUM TITANATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HIGH FIELD NEUROIMAGING; HIGH PERMITTIVITY MATERIALS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POWDER; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 84859099829     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24176     Document Type: Article

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