Multicoil array for high resolution imaging of the breast

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 778-784

  Insko, Erik K ^a   Connick, Thomas J ^a   Schnall, Mitchell D ^a,b   Orel, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast; coils; high resolution; radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

BREAST; COILS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0030973749     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370522     Document Type: Article

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