Parallel magnetic resonance imaging

DJ Larkman, RG Nunes - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Parallel imaging has been the single biggest innovation in magnetic resonance imaging in
the last decade. The use of multiple receiver coils to augment the time consuming Fourier …

Parallel MR imaging: a user's guide

JF Glockner, HH Hu, DW Stanley, L Angelos, K King - Radiographics, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
Parallel imaging is a recently developed family of techniques that take advantage of the
spatial information inherent in phased-array radiofrequency coils to reduce acquisition times …

96‐Channel receive‐only head coil for 3 Tesla: design optimization and evaluation

GC Wiggins, JR Polimeni, A Potthast… - … in Medicine: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The benefits and challenges of highly parallel array coils for head imaging were investigated
through the development of a 3T receive‐only phased‐array head coil with 96 receive …

Practical approaches to the evaluation of signal‐to‐noise ratio performance with parallel imaging: application with cardiac imaging and a 32‐channel cardiac coil

SB Reeder, BJ Wintersperger, O Dietrich… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, two practical methods for the measurement of signal‐to‐noise‐ratio (SNR)
performance in parallel imaging are described. Phantoms and human studies were …

An introduction to coil array design for parallel MRI

MA Ohliger, DK Sodickson - NMR in Biomedicine: An …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The basic principles of radiofrequency coil array design for parallel MRI are described from
both theoretical and practical perspectives. Because parallel MRI techniques rely on coil …

Advances in 4D medical imaging and 4D radiation therapy

G Li, D Citrin, K Camphausen… - … in cancer research …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper reviews recent advances in 4D medical imaging (4DMI) and 4D radiation therapy
(4DRT), which study, characterize, and minimize patient motion during the processes of …

128‐channel body MRI with a flexible high‐density receiver‐coil array

CJ Hardy, RO Giaquinto, JE Piel… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To determine whether the promise of high‐density many‐coil MRI receiver arrays
for enabling highly accelerated parallel imaging can be realized in practice. Materials and …

Potential and feasibility of parallel MRI at high field

F Wiesinger, PF Van de Moortele… - NMR in Biomedicine …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This survey focuses on the fusion of two major lines of recent progress in MRI methodology:
parallel imaging with receiver coil arrays and the transition to high and ultra‐high field …

Highly parallel volumetric imaging with a 32‐element RF coil array

Y Zhu, CJ Hardy, DK Sodickson… - … in Medicine: An …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The improvement of MRI speed with parallel acquisition is ultimately an SNR‐limited
process. To offset acquisition‐and reconstruction‐related SNR losses, practical parallel …

Magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of gastrointestinal function

W Schwizer, A Steingoetter, M Fox - Scandinavian journal of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a versatile medical imaging tool for which several new
applications have been developed in the past decade. Besides its broad clinical use for the …