A 32-channel lattice transmission line array for parallel transmit and receive MRI at 7 tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1478-1485

  Adriany, Gregor ^a   Auerbach, Edward J ^a   Snyder, Carl J ^a   Gözübüyük, Ark ^a   Moeller, Steen ^a   Ritter, Johannes ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre François ^a   Vaughan, Tommy ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; Concentric coils; High field; RF coil design; Transmission line coils; Transmit array

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCEIVERS;

CONCENTRIC COILS; HIGH FIELD; LARMOR FREQUENCIES; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; RF COIL; TRANSCEIVER ARRAY; TRANSMIT ARRAYS; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 77952676573     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22413     Document Type: Article

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