Size-optimized 32-channel brain arrays for 3 T pediatric imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1777-1787

  Keil, Boris ^a,b   Alagappan, Vijay ^a,b   Mareyam, Azma ^a   McNab, Jennifer A ^a,b   Fujimoto, Kyoko ^a   Tountcheva, Veneta ^a   Triantafyllou, Christina ^a,b,c   Dilks, Daniel D ^c   Kanwisher, Nancy ^c   Lin, Weili ^d   Grant, P Ellen ^a,b,e   Wald, Lawrence L ^a,b,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance imaging; parallel imaging; pediatric imaging; phased array coil

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN MAPPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRICS;

BRAIN IMAGING; CIRCULAR SURFACES; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PEDIATRIC IMAGING; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; PHASED ARRAY COILS; SURFACE CONTOUR;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; MAGNISVIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 81355147716     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22961     Document Type: Article

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