Electrodynamic constraints on homogeneity and radiofrequency power deposition in multiple coil excitations

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 315-334

  Lattanzi, Riccardo ^a,b   Sodickson, Daniel K ^c   Grant, Aaron K ^a,d   Zhu, Yudong ^e  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodynamics; Parallel excitation; Parallel transmission; Parallel transmit mr; Rf power deposition; SAR; Transmit coil array; Transmit parallel imaging; Transmit sense

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COIL ARRAYS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PARALLEL TRANSMIT MR; RF-POWER; TRANSMIT SENSE;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EXCITATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION;

EID: 60549086626     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21782     Document Type: Article

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