Automatic Tuning and Matching of a Small Multifrequency Saddle Coil at 4.7 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 869-873

  Pérez De Alejo, Rigoberto ^a   Garrido, Carlos ^b   Villa, Palmira ^a   Rodriguez, Ignacio ^a   Vaquero, Juan José ^c   Ruiz Cabello, Jesús ^a   Cortijo, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic frequency control; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multifrequency NMR; Saddle coil

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POTENTIOMETERS (ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS); RAT CONTROL; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIGITAL POTENTIOMETER; MULTI FREQUENCY; SADDLE COILS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; VARIABLE CAPACITOR; VARIABLE CAPACITY;

TUNING;

HELIUM;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 1842533314     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20045     Document Type: Article

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