Ultimate Intrinsic Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Parallel MRI: Electromagnetic Field Considerations

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1018-1030

  Ohliger, Michael A ^a,b,c   Grant, Aaron K ^b   Sodickson, Daniel K ^a,b  

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

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel imaging; RF coil arrays; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

COIL SENSITIVITY; CONDUCTOR ARRANGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH FIELD STRENGTHS; PARALLEL IMAGING; RF COIL; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXWELL EQUATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0242385481     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10597     Document Type: Article

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