Performance of a 200-MHz cryogenic RF probe designed for MRI and MRS of the murine brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1440-1447

  Ratering, David ^a   Baltes, Christof ^a   Nordmeyer Massner, Jurek ^a   Marek, Daniel ^b   Rudin, Markus ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRUKER BIOSPIN AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryogenic RF probe; Mouse MRI; Mouse MRS; SNR

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS; PROBES; THERMAL NOISE;

CIRCULAR SURFACES; CRYOGENIC PROBES; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; MOUSE MRS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RF PROBE; SENSITIVITY INCREASE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HELIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPERATING ROOM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 44949263057     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21629     Document Type: Article

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