An expandable catheter loop coil for intravascular MRI in larger blood vessels

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 517-523

  Homagk, Ann Kathrin ^a   Umathum, Reiner ^a   Korn, Matthias ^a   Weber, Marc André ^b   Hallscheidt, Peter ^b   Semmler, Wolfhard ^a   Bock, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheter coil; Flexible RF coil; Interventional procedures; Intravascular magnetic resonance imaging; Motion gating

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS;

FAST LOW ANGLE SHOTS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES; INTRAVASCULAR; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; MOTION GATING; PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW; RF COIL;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POLYIMIDE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE;

EID: 75749158514     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22228     Document Type: Article

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