An inverse method to design RF coil arrays optimized for SENSE imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6457-6469

  Tugan Muftuler, L ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; IMAGE CODING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT MESH (FEM); INVERSE METHODS; SENSITIVITY ENCODING (SENSE); SURFACE CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ELECTRIC COILS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33846863599     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/24/012     Document Type: Article

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