A ultra high field multi-element transceive volume array for small animal MRI

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2039-2042

  Weber, Ewald ^a   Li, Bing Keong ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

B1 FIELD; MULTI-ELEMENT; MUTUAL COUPLING EFFECTS; PARALLEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SMALL ANIMAL; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849134573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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