9.4T human MRI: Preliminary results

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1274-1282

  Vaughan, Thomas ^a,b   DelaBarre, Lance ^a   Snyder, Cari ^a   Tian, Jinfeng ^a,b   Akgun, Can ^a   Shrivastava, Devashish ^a   Liu, Wanzahn ^a   Olson, Chris ^b   Adriany, Gregor ^a   Strupp, John ^a   Andersen, Peter ^a   Gopinath, Anand ^b   Van De Moortele, Pierre Francois ^a   Garwood, Michael ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

9.4T human MRI; B1 shimming; High field MRI; Multi channel transmit

Indexed keywords

B1 SHIMMING; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; EXIT INTERVIEW; HIGH FIELD MRI; HUMAN VOLUNTEERS; MULTI CHANNEL; MULTI-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE;

EID: 33845271477     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21073     Document Type: Article

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