Interventional MRI: Tapering improves the distal sensitivity of the loopless antenna

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 797-802

  Qian, Di ^a,b   El Sharkawy, AbdEl Monem M ^a   Atalar, Ergin ^a,c   Bottomley, Paul A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Interventional MRI; Intravascular MRI; Loopless antenna; MRI detectors; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INSULATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CURRENT SENSITIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; INSULATED ANTENNAS; INTERVENTIONAL; INTRAVASCULAR; LOOPLESS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 77649176475     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22152     Document Type: Article

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