NMR microscopy with isotropic resolution of 3.0 μm using dedicated hardware and optimized methods

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-93

  Weiger, Markus ^a   Schmidig, Daniel ^a   Denoth, Schimun ^a   Massin, Charles ^a   Vincent, Franck ^a   Schenkel, Michael ^a   Fey, Michael ^a  

^a BRUKER BIOSPIN AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Constant time imaging; Diffusion; NMR microscopy; Planar gradients; RF microcoil; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949104373     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20112     Document Type: Article

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