Permittivity and performance of dielectric pads with sintered ceramic beads in MRI: Early experiments and simulations at 3 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 269-275

  Luo, Wei ^a,b   Lanagan, Michael T ^a   Sica, Christopher T ^b   Ryu, Yeunchul ^b   Oh, Sukhoon ^c   Ketterman, Matthew ^a   Yang, Qing X ^b   Collins, Christopher M ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectric; MRI; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERMITTIVITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINTERING;

CERAMIC BEADS; CERAMIC POWDER; DEUTERATED WATER; HIGH FIELD MRI; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; RADIO FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SINTERED CERAMICS; TRANSMIT POWER;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

PEROVSKITE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CERAMIC BEAD; CERAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL MEDICAL DEVICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERIAL STATE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POWDER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 84879411437     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24433     Document Type: Article

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