A combined solenoid-surface RF coil for high-resolution whole-brain rat imaging on a 3.0 tesla clinical MR scanner

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 883-892

  Underhill, Hunter R ^a,b   Yuan, Chun ^a   Hayes, Cecil E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Anatomy; Brain; Coil; Rat

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MODELS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RATING; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLENOIDS;

3.0 T; ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; ANATOMY; COIL; HELMHOLTZ COIL; HIGH RESOLUTION; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; RADIO-FREQUENCY FIELDS;

RATS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY COIL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BRAIN IMAGING;

EID: 77956373906     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22466     Document Type: Article

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