7 Tesla MRI with a transmit/receive loopless antenna and B 1-insensitive selective excitation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 220-226

  Erturk, M Arcan ^a,b   El Sharkawy, Abdel Monem M ^b   Moore, Jay ^c   Bottomley, Paul A ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

high resolution MRI; in vivo interventional MRI; intravascular MRI; transmit receive coils; vessel wall imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD VESSELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERVENTIONAL; INTRAVASCULAR; TRANSMIT/RECEIVE COILS; VESSEL WALLS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONDUCTOR; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AORTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; AORTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RABBITS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84902549997     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24910     Document Type: Article

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