A volume microstrip RF coil for MRI microscopy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-77

  Jasiński, Krzysztof ^a   Młynarczyk, Anna ^a   Latta, Peter ^b   Volotovskyy, Vyacheslav ^b   Weglarz, Władyslaw P ^a   Tomanek, Bogusław ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FEM; Micro MRI; MRI microcoil; RF coil; SNR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; CALCULATION; DEVICES; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROCOIL GEOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRIP RADIOFREQUENCY COIL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATION; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 82955187524     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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