Transmit B1-field correction at 7T using actively tuned coupled inner elements

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 901-910

  Merkle, Hellmut ^a   Murphy Boesch, Joseph ^a   Gelderen, Peter Van ^a   Wang, Shumin ^a,b   Li, Tie Qiang ^a,c   Koretsky, Alan P ^a   Duyn, Josef H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

7T head phantom; 7T MRI

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

7 T MRIS; DIGITALLY CONTROLLED; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; MULTIPLE RADIOS; RESISTIVE LOADING; TRANSMIT CHANNELS; WAVELENGTH EFFECTS;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; B 1 FIELD; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POLARIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 80051691693     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22864     Document Type: Article

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