Actively decoupled transmit-receive coil-pair for mouse brain MRI

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 252-259

  Garbow, Joel R ^a,b   Mcintosh, Charlie ^c   Conradi, Mark S ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active decoupling; Magnetic resonance imaging; PIN diode; RF coils; Transmit receive

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049135307     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20124     Document Type: Article

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