Quantitative assessment of the effects of high-permittivity pads in 7 Tesla MRI of the brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1285-1293

  Teeuwisse, Wouter M ^a   Brink, Wyger M ^a   Webb, Andrew G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

7 Tesla MRI; B1 inhomogeneity; Barium titanate; high permittivity; neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; NEUROIMAGING;

7 TESLAS; FIELD EFFICIENCY; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; HIGH-PERMITTIVITY MATERIAL; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOW SIGNAL INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

PERMITTIVITY;

BARIUM; BARIUM DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84859722309     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23108     Document Type: Article

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