Design and evaluation of a 32-channel phased-array coil for lung imaging with hyperpolarized 3-helium

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 456-464

  Meise, Florian M ^a   Rivoire, Julien ^a   Terekhov, Maxim ^a   Wiggins, Graham C ^b,c   Keil, Boris ^d   Karpuk, Sergej ^e   Salhi, Zahir ^e   Wald, Lawrence L ^b,c   Schreiber, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helium; Lung; MRI; Parallel imaging; Phased array coil

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; GAS INDUSTRY; HELIUM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PULMONARY DISEASES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ACCELERATION FACTORS; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; LUNG; PARALLEL IMAGING; PHASED ARRAY COILS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

32 CHANNEL ARRAY COIL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZED 3 HELIUM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 75749127794     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22265     Document Type: Article

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