Increased vessel depiction of the carotid bifurcation with a specialized 16-channel phased array coil at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1486-1493

  Tate, Quinn ^a,b   Kim, Seong Eun ^b   Treiman, Gerald ^b,c   Parker, Dennis L ^b   Hadley, J Rock ^b  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid imaging; MRI; phased array; SNR

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS;

ARTERIAL DISEASE; CAROTID BIFURCATION; CAROTID IMAGING; EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEWS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMAN CAROTID ARTERY; PHASED ARRAY COILS; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN SURFACE;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84876458297     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24380     Document Type: Article

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