Sensitivity-enhanced echo-planar MRI at 1.5T using a 5 x 5 mesh dome resonator

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 606-612

  Meyer, Kristen L ^a   Kim, Karl ^a,b   Li, Tao ^d   Tulipano, Paola K ^c   Lee, Kyoung Min ^a   DeLaPaz, Robert ^c   Hirsch, Joy ^a,b   Ballon, Douglas ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

echo planar imaging; functional MRI; radiofrequency resonator; two dimensional ladder network

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DOMES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; HIGH SENSITIVITY; RADIOFREQUENCY RESONATORS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE;

RESONATORS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029738968     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360416     Document Type: Article

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