Probe with chest shielding for improved breast MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 917-920

  Tomanek, Boguslaw ^a,b   Hoult, David I ^a   Chen, Xiaoman ^c   Gordon, Richard ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging; RF coils

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BREAST IMAGING; BREAST MRI; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FIELD STRENGTHS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HELMHOLTZ COIL; RF COIL; SLICE THICKNESS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0034123122     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2594(200006)43:6<917::AID-MRM22>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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