Quantitative single-voxel spectroscopy: The reciprocity principle for receive-only head coils

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-71

  Jost, Gregor ^a   Harting, Inga ^a   Heiland, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute quantification; Coil load correction; Head coil; Proton spectroscopy; Reciprocity principle; RF inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; HEAD; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 11144335466     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20236     Document Type: Article

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