Parallel RF transmission in MRI

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 393-400

  Katscher, Ulrich ^a   Börnert, Peter ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multidimesional RF pulses; Parallel excitation; Parallel imaging; Parallel transmission; RF coil array design; SAR; Spatially selective RF pulses; Transmit SENSE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

PARALLEL EXCITATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; RF COIL ARRAY DESIGN; RF PULSES; TRANSMIT SENSITIVITY ENCODING (SENSE);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPECTROMETER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33744534543     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1049     Document Type: Review

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