Three-frequency RF coil designed for optimized imaging of hyperpolarized, 13C-labeled compounds

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 928-933

  Hancu, Ileana ^a   Wood, S James ^b   Piel, Joseph ^a   Whitt, David B ^a   Fish, Kenneth M ^a   Rutt, Brian K ^b   Tropp, James ^c   Dixon, W Thomas ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c General Electric Healthcare Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

13C MRI; Flip angle calibration; Hyperpolarization; Multifrequency RF coil

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FLIP ANGLE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERPOLARIZED; LIVING TISSUES; NATURAL ABUNDANCE; RESONANT STRUCTURES; RF COIL;

CALIBRATION;

CARBON 13; LACTIC ACID; LACTIC ACID C 13; PYRUVIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID C 13; SODIUM 23; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 53549089357     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21698     Document Type: Article

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