MRI of the wrist at 7 tesla using an eight-channel array coil combined with parallel imaging: Preliminary results

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 740-746

  Chang, Gregory ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^a   Wang, Ligong ^a   Vieira, Renata L R ^a   Schweitzer, Mark E ^b   Recht, Michael P ^a   Wiggins, Graham C ^a   Regatte, Ravinder R ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

7 tesla; Musculoskeletal MRI; Parallel imaging; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MALE; MUSCLE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGIST; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; WHOLE BODY MRI; WRIST;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; WRIST;

EID: 77649223895     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22072     Document Type: Article

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