Improvement in B1+ homogeneity and average flip angle using dual-source parallel RF Excitation for Cardiac MRI in Swine Hearts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Schär, Michael ^a,b   Ding, Haiyan ^c,d   Herzka, Daniel A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; EXCITATION; HEART; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PIG; POLARIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; RADIO WAVES; SWINE;

EID: 84947205501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139859     Document Type: Article

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