Low-temperature polarized helium-3 for MRI applications

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1084-1087

  Kober, Frank ^a   Wolf, Pierre Étienne ^b   Leviel, Jean Louis ^a   Vermeulen, Gerard ^b   Duhamel, Guillaume ^a   Delon, Antoine ^c   Derouard, Jacques ^a   Décorps, Michel ^a   Ziegler, Anne ^a,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^c GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^d GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Helium; Low temperature polarization; NMR enhancement; Prepolarized gas

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; HELIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RUBIDIUM; TEMPERATURE;

GRADIENT ECHO; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; LOW TEMPERATURES; NMR EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR); POLARIZED HELIUM; PREPOLARIZATION; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

HELIUM; RUBIDIUM;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MAGNET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION;

EID: 0033036117     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199906)41:6<1084::AID-MRM2>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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