A high-throughput eight-channel probe head for murine MRI at 9.4 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-87

  Lanz, Titus ^a   Müller, Matthias ^a   Barnes, Hannah ^b   Neubauer, Stefan ^b   Schneider, Jürgen E ^b  

^a RAPID BIOMEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

9.4 T; Mouse; MRI; Parallel imaging; Phased array; RF coil

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; MAMMALS; PROBES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

9.4 T; MOUSE; PARALLEL IMAGING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF COIL; SENSITIVE VOLUME; TIME REQUIREMENTS; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ELEMENT;

AMPLIFIER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOLUMETRY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 77953940488     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22414     Document Type: Article

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