Automatic tuning of flexible interventional RF receiver coils

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 983-993

  Venook, Ross D ^a,d   Hargreaves, Brian A ^a,b   Gold, Garry E ^b   Conolly, Steven M ^a,c   Scott, Greig C ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic tuning; Interarticular; Interventional MRI; Noise figure; RF coils

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; NOISE FIGURE; PHANTOMS; PROBES; RADIO RECEIVERS; TUNING;

AUTOMATIC TUNING; CENTER FREQUENCY; INTERARTICULAR; INTERVENTIONAL; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RF COIL; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; KNEE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE;

EID: 26844570470     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20616     Document Type: Article

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