A Birdcage Coil Tuned by RF Shielding for Application at 9.4 T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-38

  Dardzinski, Bernard J ^a   Li, Shizhe ^a   Collins, Christopher M ^a,b   Williams, Gerald D ^a   Smith, Michael B ^a,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdcage coil; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mutual inductance; RF shield

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RAT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RATS;

EID: 0032012596     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1997.1334     Document Type: Article

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