A flexible 32-channel receive array combined with a homogeneous transmit coil for human lung imaging with hyperpolarized 3He at 1.5 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1788-1797

  Deppe, Martin H ^a   Parra Robles, Juan ^a   Marshall, Helen ^a   Lanz, Titus ^b   Wild, Jim M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Rapid Biomedizinische Geräte GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

hyperpolarization; lung; parallel imaging; receive array

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ACCELERATION FACTORS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERPOLARIZED NUCLEUS; LUNG; PARALLEL IMAGING; RECEIVE ARRAY; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HELIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LUNG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARALLEL IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 81355138902     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22962     Document Type: Article

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