Transmit and receive transmission line arrays for 7 tesla parallel imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 434-445

  Adriany, Gregor ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre Francois ^a   Wiesinger, Florian ^b   Moeller, Steen ^a   Strupp, John P ^a   Andersen, Peter ^a   Snyder, Carl ^a   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^b   Boesiger, Peter ^b   Vaughan, Tommy ^a   Uǧurbil, Kamil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

7 T; High field; Parallel imaging array; RF coil; Transmission line coil

Indexed keywords

HIGH FIELD; HIGH-FREQUENCY PROPERTIES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL IMAGING; RF COIL; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; STRIPLINE TRANSMISSION LINES;

ELECTRIC LINES;

ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 19944432289     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20321     Document Type: Article

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