Solenoidal microcoil design - Part II: Optimizing winding parameters for maximum signal-to-noise performance

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 190-210

  Minard, Kevin R ^a,b   Wind, Robert A ^a,c,d,e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Losses; Microcoil; NMR; RF; Sensitivity; SNR; Solenoid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035630560     PISSN: 10437347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.1008     Document Type: Article

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