Double spiral array coil design for enhanced 3D parallel MRI at 1.5 tesla

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-79

  Mueller, Matthias F ^a,b   Blaimer, Martin ^c   Breuer, Felix ^c   Lanz, Titus ^b   Webb, Andrew ^d   Griswold, Mark ^e   Jakob, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RAPID BIOMEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^c Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria (MRB)   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

2D GRAPPA; Fast MR imaging; Parallel imaging; RF coil array; Spiral array

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649881398     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20137     Document Type: Article

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