Specific absorption rate intersubject variability in 7T parallel transmit MRI of the head

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1476-1485

  De Greef, Martijn ^a   Ipek, Ozlem ^b   Raaijmakers, Alexander J E ^b   Crezee, Johannes ^a   Van Den Berg, Cornelis A T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

numerical simulation; parallel transmit; RF safety; SAR monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

DIELECTRIC MODELING; GENERIC HEAD MODEL; LARGEST EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARALLEL TRANSMIT; PATIENT SPECIFIC MODEL; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS; RF SAFETIES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

SAFETY FACTOR;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD VESSEL; CARTILAGE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MANDIBLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNX; PINEAL BODY; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; THALAMUS; THYMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ABSORPTION; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84876479410     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24378     Document Type: Article

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