Evaluation of multicoil breast arrays for parallel imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 328-338

  Marshall, Helen ^a   Devine, Patrick M ^a   Shanmugaratnam, Nishanthan ^b   Fobel, Ryan ^a   Siegler, Peter ^a   Piron, Cameron A ^b   Plewes, Donald B ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Sentinelle Medical Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast magnetic resonance imaging; Coil performance; G factor; SENSE; SNR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTICOIL BREAST ARRAY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ENCODING ACCELERATED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BREAST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 75749094800     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22023     Document Type: Article

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