Intercomparison of performance of RF coil geometries for high field mouse cardiac MRI

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research

Volumn 38 A, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 236-252

  Constantinides, Christakis ^a   Angeli, S ^a   Gkagkarellis, S ^a   Cofer, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

B1 field simulations; Cardiac; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mouse; Radio frequency coils; Relaxation times; SNR

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053412299     PISSN: 15466086     EISSN: 15525023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.a.20225     Document Type: Article

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