Reengineered helmet coil for human brain studies at 3 tesla

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-74

  Driesel, Wolfgang ^a   Merkle, Hellmut ^b   Hetzer, Stefan ^a   Riemer, Thomas ^c   Zysset, Stefan ^a   Möller, Harald E ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helmet coil; High field imaging; Human brain; Radiofrequency field homogeneity; Specific absorption rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744442100     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20052     Document Type: Article

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