Image uniformity improvement for birdcage-like volume coils at 400 MHz using multichannel excitations

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 153-160

  Taracila, Victor ^a   Petropoulos, Labros S ^a,b   Eagan, Timothy P ^a   Brown, Robert W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hitachi Medical Systems America   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonance; High frequency RF fields; Interference; Sum of squares reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747602085     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20067     Document Type: Article

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