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Daniel K. Sodickson.
Lattanzi, Riccardo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2007-02-21T11:59:45Z
2007-02-21T11:59:45Z
2006
2006
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36187
75206589
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70).
Parallel MRI techniques allow acceleration of MR imaging beyond traditional speed limits. In parallel MRI, arrays of radiofrequency (RF) detector coil arrays are used to perform some degree of spatial encoding which complements traditional encoding using magnetic field gradients. As the acceleration factor increases, coil design becomes critical to the overall image quality. The quality of a design is commonly judged on how it compares with other coil configurations. A procedure to evaluate the absolute performance of RF coil arrays is proposed. Electromagnetic calculations to compute the ultimate intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) available for any physically realizable coil array are shown, and coil performance maps are generated based on the ratio of experimentally measured SNR to this ultimate intrinsic SNR.
by Riccardo Lattanzi.
S.M.
70 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Radiofrequency detector coil performance maps for parallel MRI applications
Radio frequency detector coil performance maps for parallel magnetic resonance imaging applications
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