Optimized radiofrequency coil setup for MR examination of living isolated rat hearts in a horizontal 9.4T magnet

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2398-2405

  Lohezic, Maelene ^a   Bollensdorff, Christian ^b,c   Korn, Matthias ^d   Lanz, Titus ^d   Grau, Vicente ^e   Kohl, Peter ^b,e   Schneider, Jürgen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c QATAR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^d RAPID BIOMEDICAL GMBH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; Langendorff perfusion; proton spectroscopy; radiofrequency coil

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETS; METABOLITES; RATS; RESONATORS; TENSORS;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; EXTERNAL RESONATORS; LANGENDORFF; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PROTON;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGING PHANTOM; ISOLATED HEART; MAGNET; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN PERFUSION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY COIL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84929654317     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25369     Document Type: Article

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