Thermal simulations in the human head for high field MRI using parallel transmission

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1312-1321

  Massire, Aurélien ^a   Cloos, Martjin A ^a   Luong, Michel ^a   Amadon, Alexis ^a   Vignaud, Alexandre ^b   Wiggins, Christopher J ^a   Boulant, Nicolas ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b Siemens Healthcare   (France)

Author keywords

parallel transmission; safety; SAR; simulation; temperature; Transmit SENSE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84862112384     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23542     Document Type: Article

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