7T Human Spine Imaging Arrays With Adjustable Inductive Decoupling

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-403

  Wu, Bing ^a   Wang, Chunsheng ^a   Krug, Roland ^a   Xu, Duan ^a   Pang, Yong ^a   Banerjee, Suchandrima ^a   Kelley, Douglas A ^b   Vigneron, Daniel B ^a,c   Nelson, Sarah J ^a,c   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a,c   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b General Electric Healthcare   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; decoupling; high field MRI; human spine; microstrip; parallel imaging; RF coil

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

EID: 77950357155     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2030170     Document Type: Article

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