Inductively coupled rf coils for examinations of small animals and objects in standard whole-body MR scanners

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1241-1245

  Graf, Hansjörg ^a,c   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a   Grieser, Marco ^b   Bellemann, Matthias E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Fur Radiologische Diagnostik   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution MRI; Inductive coil coupling; MR coil technique; Small animal MRI

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; SCANNING; SOLENOIDS;

GRADIENT STRENGTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INDUCTIVE COILS; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; MR COIL TECHNIQUE; SMALL ANIMAL; SOLENOID COILS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRENGTH; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALIA; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 0038377168     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1576227     Document Type: Article

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