Manipulation of image intensity distribution at 7.0 T: Passive RF shimming and focusing with dielectric materials

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 197-202

  Yang, Qing X ^a   Mao, Weihua ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^b   Smith, Michael B ^a   Lei, Hao ^c   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^d   Ugurbil, Kamil ^d   Chen, Wei ^d  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD; High field MRI; RF field focusing; RF field inhomogeneity; RF field passive shim

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 33745700347     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20603     Document Type: Article

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