Development of MRI phantom equivalent to human tissues for 3.0-T MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hattori, Kengo ^a   Ikemoto, Yusuke ^b   Takao, Wataru ^b   Ohno, Seiichiro ^c   Harimoto, Takashi ^d   Kanazawa, Susumu ^e   Oita, Masataka ^f   Shibuya, Koichi ^f   Kuroda, Masahiro ^f   Kato, Hirokazu ^f  

^a Nagoya Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA KYOKUTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Kitagawa Hospital   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3.0T MRI; conductivity; phantom

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; HISTOLOGY; RELAXATION TIME; SODIUM AZIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE;

CARRAGEENANS; CONDUCTIVITY MODIFIERS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; EQUIVALENT CONDUCTIVITY; HUMAN TISSUES; REINFORCING AGENT; T1 RELAXATION; T2 RELAXATION;

PHANTOMS;

AGAROSE; CARRAGEENAN; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; GADOLINIUM; SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONDUCTANCE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPEDANCE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SEPHAROSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84874768123     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4790023     Document Type: Article

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