A rapidly rotating RF coil for MRI

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 59-66

  Trakic, Adnan ^a   Li, Bing Keong ^a   Weber, Ewald ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Wilson, Stephen ^a   Crozier, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coil array; MRI; Pulse sequences; Rotating RF coil; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649878840     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20136     Document Type: Article

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