Increasing signal homogeneity and image quality in abdominal imaging at 3 T with very high permittivity materials

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1317-1324

  De Heer, P ^a,b   Brink, W M ^b   Kooij, B J ^a   Webb, A G ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

abdominal imaging; body imaging; dielectric resonance; high permittivity materials; image shading; RF inhomogeneities

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMAGE QUALITY; WAVE FILTERS;

ABDOMINAL IMAGING; BODY IMAGING; DIELECTRIC RESONANCES; HIGH-PERMITTIVITY MATERIAL; IMAGE SHADING; INHOMOGENEITIES;

PERMITTIVITY;

ABDOMINAL IMAGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866730603     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24438     Document Type: Article

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