Basic and tailored RF shimming in a multi-transmit whole body MR system

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 687-690

  Katscher, U ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; EXCITATION PATTERN; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PROPAGATION EFFECT; REGION OF INTEREST; SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84898815457     PISSN: 15599450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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