Magnetic resonance imaging of the female pelvis: New circularly polarized body array coil versus standard body coil

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Scheidler, Juergen ^a,b   Heuck, Andreas F ^a   Bruening, Roland ^a   Kohz, Peter ^a   Kimmig, Rainer ^a   Stehling, Michael K ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coil arrays; magnetic resonance; Pelvis; staging; uterine neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0031022283     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199701000-00001     Document Type: Article

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