Phantom design method for high-field MRI human systems

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1016-1020

  Yang, Qing X ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^a   Collins, Christopher M ^a   Smith, Michael B ^a   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^b   Ugurbil, Kamil ^b   Chen, Wei ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

High field MRI; MRI; Phantom design; RF coil; RF field

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONDUCTION CURRENT; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIELD STRENGTHS; HIGH FIELD MRI; RF COIL; RF FIELDS; WAVE BEHAVIOR; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOM; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 7544226842     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20245     Document Type: Article

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