MRI of the human brain at 130 microtesla

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 19194-19201

  Inglis, Ben ^a   Buckenmaier, Kai ^a,b   SanGiorgio, Paul ^a,b,c   Pedersen, Anders F ^a   Nichols, Matthew A ^a,d   Clarke, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM; PROTON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE; CEPHALIC VEIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SCALP; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKULL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; ULTRALOW FIELD NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888345977     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319334110     Document Type: Article

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