Cardiac cine imaging at 3 tesla: Initial experience with a 32-element body-array coil

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 601-608

  Fenchel, Michael ^a,b   Deshpande, Vibhas S ^c   Nael, Kambiz ^b   Finn, J Paul ^b   Miller, Stephan ^a   Ruehm, Stefan ^b   Laub, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; GRAPPA; Magnetic resonance; MR angiography; MRA; Parallel imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 33747821382     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000223896.70095.49     Document Type: Article

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