Advantageous application of a surface coil to EPR irradiation in overhauser-enhanced MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 806-811

  Matsumoto, Shingo ^a   Yamada, Kenichi ^a   Hirata, Hiroshi ^b   Yasukawa, Keiji ^a   Hyodo, Fuminori ^a   Ichikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Utsumi, Hideo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic nuclear polarization; Free radical; Imaging; OMRI; PEDRI; Surface coil

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC NUCLEAR POLARIZATION; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); OMRI; PEDRI; SURFACE COILS; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248400703     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21198     Document Type: Article

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