Local planar gradients with order-of-magnitude strength and speed advantage

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 134-143

  Aksel, Bulent ^a   Marinelli, Luca ^a   Collick, Bruce D ^b   Von Morze, Cornelius ^c   Bottomley, Paul A ^d   Hardy, Christopher J ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradient nonlinearity; High speed gradients; Local gradients; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Planar gradients

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

GRADIENT NONLINEARITY; HIGH SPEED; LOCAL GRADIENTS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PLANAR GRADIENTS;

SCANNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; TORQUE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34547785704     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21263     Document Type: Article

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