A dedicated two-channel phased-array receiver coil for high-resolution MRI of the rat knee cartilage at 7 T

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2891-2897

  Rengle, Adrian ^a   Armenean, Mircea ^b   Bolbos, Radu ^c   Goebel, Jean Christophe ^d   Pinzano Watrin, Astrid ^d   Saint Jalmes, Hervé ^e   Gillet, Pierre ^d   Beuf, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Nitech Romania   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

High magnetic field strength; High resolution MRI (HR MRI); Multiple acquisitions; Phased array coil; Rat cartilage morphology

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RATS;

HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; PHASED ARRAY COILS; PHASED ARRAY RECEIVER; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 72649091043     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006015     Document Type: Article

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