Effects of tuning condition, head size and position on the SAR of a MRI dual-row transmit array at 400MHz

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 422-426

  Kozlov, M ^a   Turner, R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PERFORMANCE; EXCITATION MODE; HUMAN HEAD MODEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; SCALING FACTORS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATIOS; TRANSMIT ARRAYS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

TUNING;

EID: 84877956941     PISSN: 15599450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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