A 64-channel 3T array coil for accelerated brain MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 248-258

  Keil, Boris ^a,b   Blau, James N ^a   Biber, Stephan ^c   Hoecht, Philipp ^d   Tountcheva, Veneta ^a   Setsompop, Kawin ^a,b   Triantafyllou, Christina ^a,b,e   Wald, Lawrence L ^a,b,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

brain imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; parallel imaging; phased array coil

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING;

ACCELERATION RATES; BRAIN IMAGING; HIGHLY PARALLELS; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; PATIENT COMFORT; PHASED ARRAY COILS; SIZE AND SHAPE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

34 CHANNEL BRAIN ARRAY COIL; 64 CHANNEL BRAIN ARRAY COIL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84879411841     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24427     Document Type: Article

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