Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 81-87 , January 2006

Sensitivity enhancement and compensation of RF penetration artifact with planar actively detunable quadrature surface coil

  • Alexey Peshkovsky

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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  • Richard P. Kennan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • ,
  • Ronald L. Nagel

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • ,
  • Nikolai I. Avdievich

      Affiliations

    • Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Tel.: +1 718 430 4011; fax: +1 718 430 3399.

Received 1 April 2004 ,Revised 27 August 2004 ,Accepted 27 August 2004.

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PII: S0730-725X(05)00303-6

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.08.026

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 81-87 , January 2006

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