A 20-channel receive-only mouse array coil for a 3 T clinical MRI system

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 582-593

  Keil, Boris ^a,b   Wiggins, Graham C ^c   Triantafyllou, Christina ^b,d   Wald, Lawrence L ^b,e   Meise, Florian M ^f   Schreiber, Laura M ^f   Klose, Klaus J ^a   Heverhagen, Johannes T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance imaging; parallel imaging; phased array coil; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; PHANTOMS;

HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-DENSITY ARRAYS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; OVERLAPPING DESIGN; PARALLEL IMAGING; PHASED ARRAY COILS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79960594280     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22791     Document Type: Article

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