The design of a double-tuned two-port surface resonator and its application to in vivo Hydrogen- and Sodium-MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 217, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-18

  Wetterling, Friedrich ^a,b   Högler, Miroslav ^c   Molkenthin, Ute ^c   Junge, Sven ^c   Gallagher, Lindsay ^d   Mhairi MacRae, I ^d   Fagan, Andrew J ^a,e  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

23Na MRI; Coil construction; Double tuning; Two port surface resonator

Indexed keywords

23NA-MRI; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT MAPS; COIL DESIGNS; CONSTRUCTION STEPS; DATA SETS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; DOUBLE-TUNING; FIELD STRENGTHS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY SIGNALS; FUNCTION OF TIME; IN-SITU; IN-VIVO; MRI SCANNERS; OPTIMAL VARIABLES; OUTPUT CHANNELS; RAT BRAIN; REGIONAL VARIATION; RODENT BRAIN; TIME COURSE;

DESIGN; HYDROGEN; ION EXCHANGE; RATS; SODIUM; TISSUE;

RESONATORS;

HYDROGEN; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM; TRANSDUCERS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84859430559     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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