Whole body sodium MRI at 3T using an asymmetric birdcage resonator and short echo time sequence: First images of a male volunteer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4555-4567

  Wetterling, Friedrich ^a   Corteville, Dominique M ^a   Kalayciyan, Raffi ^a   Rennings, Andreas ^b   Konstandin, Simon ^a   Nagel, Armin M ^a   Stark, Helmut ^c   Schad, Lothar R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Stark Contrast GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; BIRDCAGE RESONATOR; BRAIN TISSUE; CALF MUSCLE; ECHO TIME; FIELD PROFILE; HUMAN BODIES; ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; SNR IMPROVEMENT; SNR VALUES; SODIUM MRI; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE COILS; TISSUE SODIUM CONCENTRATION; WHOLE BODY;

CHEMOTHERAPY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESONATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; UROLOGY;

SODIUM;

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SODIUM; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84863502205     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/14/4555     Document Type: Article

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