Dual-source radiofrequency transmission with patient-adaptive local radiofrequency shimming for 3.0-T cardiac MR imaging: Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-85

  Mueller, Andreas ^a   Kouwenhoven, Marc ^b   Naehle, Claas P ^a   Gieseke, Juergen ^a,b   Strach, Katharina ^a   Willinek, Winfried A ^a   Schild, Hans H ^a   Thomas, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; B1 HOMOGENEITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUAL CHANNEL TRANSMIT WHOLE BODY MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM; DUAL SOURCE PARALLEL RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PATIENT ADAPTIVE LOCAL RADIOFREQUENCY SHIMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION CINE SEQUENCE; TURBO SPIN ECHO BLACK BLOOD SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIO WAVES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84862507502     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110347     Document Type: Article

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