A versatile high speed 250-mHz pulse imager for biomedical applications

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-176

  Epel, Boris ^a   Sundramoorthy, Subramanian V ^a   Mailer, Colin ^a   Halpern, Howard J ^a  

^a University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

EPR imaging; EPRI in vivo system design; Low field EPRI; Oxygen concentration; Phase relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049128925     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20119     Document Type: Article

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