Three-element phased-array coil for imaging of rat spinal cord at 7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1498-1505

  Mogatadakala, Kishore V ^a   Bankson, James A ^b   Narayana, Ponnada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive decoupling; g factor; MRI; Parallel imaging; Phased array coil; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; RADIOLOGY; RATS; SOLDERED JOINTS;

CAPACITIVE DECOUPLING; G FACTORS; PARALLEL IMAGING; PHASED ARRAY COILS; SPINAL CORDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 57149093220     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21777     Document Type: Article

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