Pushing the limits of high-resolution functional MRI using a simple high-density multi-element coil design

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-73

  Petridou, N ^a   Italiaander, M ^a   van de Bank, B L ^a,b   Siero, J C W ^a   Luijten, P R ^a   Klomp, D W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

7 T; BOLD; FMRI; g factor; High resolution; Phased array; SNR

Indexed keywords

7 T; BOLD; FMRI; G FACTORS; HIGH RESOLUTION; SNR;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DESIGN; OXYGENATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH DENSITY MULTIELEMENT SURFACE COIL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN MAPPING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84871687504     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2820     Document Type: Article

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