Accurate flip-angle calibration for 13C MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-133

  Hancu, Ileana ^a   Watkins, Ronald ^a   Kohler, Susan J ^b   Mallozzi, Richard P ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

13C MRI; Dual tuned coil; Flip angle calibration; Hyperpolarization; Multi nuclear spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR RADIATION SPECTROSCOPY;

DUAL-TUNED COIL; FLIP ANGLE; HIGH SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIOS (SNR); HYPERPOLARIZATION; MULTI-NUCLEAR; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; SIGNAL QUANTIFICATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CARBON 13; SODIUM 23;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 34547746093     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21252     Document Type: Article

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