B1+ interferometry for the calibration of RF transmitter arrays

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1480-1488

  Brunner, David O ^a   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Array transmission; B1 mapping; High field MRI; Parallel excitation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MAPPING; TRANSMITTERS;

B1 MAPPING; HIGH FIELD MRI; LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; NONLINEAR FITTING; PARALLEL EXCITATION; RF MAGNETIC FIELDS; TRANSMITTER CHANNELS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; ULTRA HIGH FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SWITZERLAND; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 67049109394     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21893     Document Type: Article

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