A new dedicated double-tuned (100 MHz-27 MHz) volume RF coil actively-decoupled form a receive-only simple-tuned (27 MHz) coil: Application to the MRI experiments of hyperpolarized 129Xe in the rat brain

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 945-950

  Asfour, Aktham ^a,b   Auboiroux, Vincent ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Active decoupling; Hyperpolarized xenon 129; MRI; RF double tuned coils

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DECOUPLING; HYPERPOLARIZED XENON-129; MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES; MRI; RF DOUBLE-TUNED COILS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 51349152031     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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