Degenerate Mode Birdcage Volume Coil for Sensitivity-Encoded Imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1107-1111

  Lin, Fa Hsuan ^a,b   Kwong, Kenneth K ^b   Huang, Ing Jye ^b,c   Belliveau, John W ^b   Wald, Lawrence L ^b  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Birdcage; Brain; Parallel MRI; RF coil; SENSE

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING;

ACCELERATION FACTORS; BIRDCAGE; GEOMETRICAL ARRANGEMENTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; PARALLEL ACQUISITION; PARALLEL MRI; RF COIL; SENSE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SENSITIVITY ENCODED IMAGING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOLUME BIRDCAGE HEAD COIL;

EID: 0242322582     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10632     Document Type: Article

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