Diffusion tensor echo planar imaging using surface coil transceiver with a semiadiabatic RF pulse sequence at 14.1T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 732-737

  Van De Looij, Yohan ^a,b   Kunz, Nicolas ^a,b   Hüppi, Petra ^a   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b,c   Sizonenko, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; ultra high magnetic field; adiabatic radiofrequency pulse; rat brain; surface coil

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS; TRANSCEIVERS;

DERIVED PARAMETERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FILLING FACTOR; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; SURFACE COILS; TRANSMIT SCHEMES; ULTRA-HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79951834792     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22656     Document Type: Article

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