Initial results of cardiac imaging at 7 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-524

  Snyder, C J ^a   DelaBarre, L ^a   Metzger, G J ^a   Van De Moortele, P F ^a   Akgun, C ^a   Ugurbil, K ^a   Vaughan, J Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

7T cardiac; B1 shimming; Transceiver array

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

7T CARDIAC; B1 SHIMMING; CARDIAC MOTION ARTIFACT; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TRANSCEIVER ARRAY;

HEART;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 62649171078     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21895     Document Type: Article

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