RF encoding using a multielement parallel transmit system

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1463-1470

  Katscher, Ulrich ^a   Lisinski, Jonathan ^b   Börnert, Peter ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise reduction; B1 mapping; Parallel RF transmission; RF encoding; Rotating frame zeugmatography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ITERATIVE METHODS;

B1 MAPPING; ENCODING TECHNIQUES; FIELD GRADIENT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF TRANSMISSION; ROTATING FRAME; SPATIAL ENCODING; TRANSMIT ARRAYS;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 77952727992     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22439     Document Type: Article

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