Integrated RF coil with stabilization for fMRI human cortex

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-18

  Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Scott, James D ^a   Peterson, David M ^a   Wolverton, Bryan L ^a   Webster, Charles S ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Multichannel receiver; Phased array; RF coils

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; STABILIZATION;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; IMAGE DEGRADATION; MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVERS; PHASED ARRAY RECEIVER; RF COIL; STABILIZATION SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030849707     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380104     Document Type: Article

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