Cardiac imaging at 7 tesla: Single- and two-spoke radiofrequency pulse design with 16-channel parallel excitation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1210-1219

  Schmitter, Sebastian ^a   Delabarre, Lance ^a   Wu, Xiaoping ^a   Greiser, Andreas ^b   Wang, Dingxin ^a,c   Auerbach, Edward J ^a   Vaughan, J Thomas ^a   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a   Van De Moortele, Pierre François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; cardiac CINE imaging; parallel transmission; pTX; RF pulse design; spoke excitation

Indexed keywords

HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; TISSUE;

IMPROVED CONTRASTS; PARALLEL EXCITATION; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RF PULSE DESIGNS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRANSMIT METHODS; ULTRA-HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

7T; CARDIAC CINE IMAGING; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION; PTX; RF PULSE DESIGN; SPOKE EXCITATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREATH HOLDING; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84886800142     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24935     Document Type: Article

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