A specific absorption rate prediction concept for parallel transmission MR

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1664-1674

  Graesslin, Ingmar ^a   Homann, Hanno ^a   Biederer, Sven ^a   Börnert, Peter ^a   Nehrke, Kay ^a   Vernickel, Peter ^a   Mens, Giel ^b   Harvey, Paul ^b   Katscher, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

parallel radiofrequency transmission; radiofrequency patient safety; SAR prediction; SAR validation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FORECASTING;

COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSMISSION; SAR VALIDATION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MODELB; BODY POSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSMISSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

EID: 84867849878     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24138     Document Type: Article

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