Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 1302-1308 , November 2009

An optimized solenoidal head radiofrequency coil for low-field magnetic resonance imaging

  • Barbara Blasiak

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow 31-342, Poland
    • Experimental Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
    • Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1Y6
    • ,
  • Vyacheslav Volotovskyy

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1Y6
    • ,
  • Charlie Deng

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1Y6
    • ,
  • Boguslaw Tomanek

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow 31-342, Poland
    • Experimental Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
    • Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 1Y6
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1Y6, Canada.

Received 25 August 2008 ,Revised 25 January 2009 ,Accepted 7 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.018

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 1302-1308 , November 2009

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