Low-field MRI of laser polarized noble gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3785-3788

  Tseng, C H ^a,b,c   Wong, G P ^a   Pomeroy, V R ^d   Mair, R W ^a   Hinton, D P ^e   Hoffmann, D ^a   Stoner, R E ^a   Hersman, F W ^d   Cory, D G ^c   Walsworth, R L ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM;

DEVICES; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING PHANTOM; LASER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES;

DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HELIUM; LASERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0032569523     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3785     Document Type: Article

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