A novel receive-only liquid nitrogen (LN 2 )-Cooled RF coil for high-resolution in vivo imaging on a 3-tesla whole-body scanner

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-139

  Hu, Bobo ^a,b   Varma, Gopal ^c   Randell, Chris ^d   Keevil, Stephen F ^c,e   Schaeffter, Tobias ^c   Glover, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Pulseteq Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; electromagnetic (EM) modeling; finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; image resolution; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); medical diagnosis; quality (Q) factor; signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; COIL SIZES; COST EFFECTIVE; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DETUNINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; EM SIMULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIND LEGS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IN-VIVO IMAGING; LOADING CONDITION; LOWER RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNERS; NONMAGNETICS; QUALITY (Q) FACTOR; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL; RF COIL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SNR GAINS; SURFACE COILS; WHOLE-BODY;

CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIQUID NITROGEN; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROBES; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 83655201469     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2157575     Document Type: Article

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