12-channel receive array with a volume transmit coil for hand/wrist imaging at 7 T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 238-244

  Raghuraman, Sairamesh ^a,b   Mueller, Matthias F ^b   Zbýň, Štefan ^c   Baer, Peter ^d   Breuer, Felix A ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^c   Trattnig, Siegfried ^c   Lanz, Titus ^b   Jakob, Peter M ^a,e  

^a Research Center Magnetic Resonance Bavaria (MRB)   (Germany)

^b RAPID BIOMEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

hand imaging; high field MRI; musculoskeletal MRI; RF coil design; wrist imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WRIST;

HAND IMAGING; HIGH FIELD MRI; MUSCULOSKELETAL MRI; RF COIL DESIGN; WRIST IMAGING;

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

EID: 84880107784     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23883     Document Type: Article

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