Phase alignment of multiple surface coil data for reduced bandwidth and reconstruction requirements

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1003-1011

  Debbins, Josef P ^a   Felmlee, Joel P ^a   Riederer, Stephen J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Phased array; Reconstruction; Signal to noise ratio; Surface coil

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; MULTIPLE ELEMENTS; MULTIPLE SURFACES; PHASE ALIGNMENT; REDUCED BANDWIDTHS; SURFACE COILS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0030669303     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380621     Document Type: Article

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