Role of very high order and degree B0 shimming for spectroscopic imaging of the human brain at 7 tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1007-1017

  Pan, Jullie W ^a   Lo, Kai Ming ^b   Hetherington, Hoby P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Resonance Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; higher order shims; human brain; MRSI

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PIXELS;

AZIMUTHAL SYMMETRIES; HIGHER-ORDER; HUMAN BRAIN; MRSI; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

SHIMS;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SLICE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA;

EID: 84866743697     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24122     Document Type: Article

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