Three-dimensional mapping of the B1 field using an optimized phase-based method: Application to hyperpolarized 3He in lungs

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1166-1172

  Santoro, Davide ^a   Rivoire, Julien ^a   Meise, Florian ^a   Terekhov, Maxim ^a   Salhi, Zahir ^b   Gast, Klaus ^a   Schreiber, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

helium; mapping; MRI

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

ACQUISITION TIME; COMPOSITE PULSE; INHOMOGENEITIES; PULSE EXCITATION; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY EXCITATION; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; THREE DIMENSIONAL MAPPING;

MAPPING;

HELIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PULSE WAVE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HELIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOTOPES; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952799108     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22683     Document Type: Article

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