Potential and feasibility of parallel MRI at high field

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 368-378

  Wiesinger, Florian ^a   Van de Moortele, Pierre Francois ^b   Adriany, Gregor ^b   De Zanche, Nicola ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; GRAPPA; High field; Parallel imaging; SENSE; SMASH; SNR

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COIL ARRAYS; HIGH FIELD; PARALLEL ACQUISITION; PARALLEL IMAGING; RESONANCE FREQUENCY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRICITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 33744538123     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1050     Document Type: Article

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