Micro MRI of the mouse brain using a novel 400 MHz cryogenic quadrature RF probe

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 834-842

  Baltes, Christof ^a   Radzwill, Nicole ^b   Bosshard, Simone ^a   Marek, Daniel ^c   Rudin, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH   (Germany)

^c BRUKER BIOSPIN AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiography; Cryogenic; High resolution; Mouse; MRI; Quadrature; Small animal

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA SETS; DETECTION DEVICE; HIGH DEMAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN DISEASE; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICRO-MRI; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOLECULAR LAYER; MOUSE; MOUSE BRAIN; MOUSE MODELS; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; PARAMETER SETTING; PHENOTYPING; PURKINJE CELLS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF PROBE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SMALL ANIMAL; SPIN ECHO; SURFACE COILS; VASCULATURE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CRYOGENICS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; PROBES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGENIC QUADRATURE RADIOFREQUENCY PROBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; RADIO WAVES;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70649084122     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1396     Document Type: Article

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