96-Channel receive-only head coil for 3 Tesla: Design optimization and evaluation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 754-762

  Wiggins, Graham C ^a   Polimeni, Jonathan R ^a   Potthast, Andreas ^b   Schmitt, Melanie ^a   Alagappan, Vijay ^a   Wald, Lawrence L ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

96 Channel; g factor; Phased array; RF coil design; SNR

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BRAIN MAPPING;

96-CHANNEL; ACCELERATION RATES; ARRAY ELEMENTS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; G FACTORS; HIGHLY PARALLELS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; RF COIL;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

96 CHANNEL HEAD COIL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 69449091437     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22028     Document Type: Article

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