SQUID-detected MRI at 132 μT with T1-weighted contrast established at 10 μT-300 mT

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-14

  Seung, Kyun Lee ^a,b   Mößle, Michael ^a,b   Myers, Whittier ^a,b   Kelso, Nathan ^a,b   Trabesinger, Andreas H ^a,b   Pines, Alexander ^a,b   Clarke, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low field MRI; Relaxation dispersion; SQUID; T1 weighted contrast

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOLLUSCS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SHELLFISH;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; INVERSION RECOVERY; LOW FIELD MRI; RELAXATION DISPERSION; SIGNAL CONTRIBUTION; T1-WEIGHTED;

SQUIDS;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 12144268370     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20316     Document Type: Article

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