Strategies for shimming the breast

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1139-1145

  Maril, Nimrod ^a   Collins, Christopher M ^b   Greenman, Robert L ^a   Lenkinski, Robert E ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; CSI; Field homogeneity; High field; Phase map

Indexed keywords

SHIMS;

BREAST; CLINICAL SCANNERS; FIELD HOMOGENEITY; HIGH FIELD; NONHOMOGENOUS FIELD; PHASE MAPS; REGIONAL VARIATION; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; NIPPLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX WALL;

EID: 27644465227     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20679     Document Type: Article

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