Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 1014-1021 , September 2010

Simulating the effects of time-varying magnetic fields with a realistic simulated scanner

  • Ivana Drobnjak

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Image Computing, University College London WC1E 6BT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Gaby S. Pell

      Affiliations

    • Brain Research Institute, Florey Neurosciences Institute, Melbourne, 3081 Australia
    • ,
  • Mark Jenkinson

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK

Received 14 October 2009 ,Revised 3 February 2010 ,Accepted 5 March 2010.

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PII: S0730-725X(10)00092-5

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.029

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 1014-1021 , September 2010

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