Multichannel transceiver dual-tuned RF coil for proton/sodium MR imaging of knee cartilage at 3 T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 562-571

  Kim, Jung Hwan ^a   Moon, Chan Hong ^a   Park, Bum Woo ^a   Furlan, Alessandro ^a   Zhao, Tiejun ^b   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual tuned coil; Multitransceiver coil; Sodium MR imaging

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE CARTILAGE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MULTICHANNEL TRANSRECEIVER DUAL TUNED RADIOFREQUENCY COIL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SODIUM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM;

EID: 84862802779     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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