Design and performance issues of RF coils utilized in ultra high field MRI: Experimental and numerical evaluations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1278-1284

  Ibrahim, Tamer S ^a,d   Kangarlu, Alayar ^b   Chakeress, Donald W ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^e OSU

Author keywords

B1 field; Numerical simulation; Radiofrequency coil design; TEM resonator; Ultra high field

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; RADIO EQUIPMENT; RESONATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COIL SENSITIVITY; HEAD IMAGING; ULTRA HIGH FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHOLE BODY MAGNET;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY COIL; SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE RESONATOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRA HIGH FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 21844457678     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.847564     Document Type: Article

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