Compensating for Field Strength with Coils; Comparison of SNR at 1.5T, 3T and 7T with 12 and 32 Channel Arrays
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M. Elschot, L. L. Wald, S. Biber, M. Hamm, and C. Triantafyllou A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Siemens HealthCare, Erlangen, Germany, Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Charlestown, MA, United States, A.A. Martinos Imaging Center, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
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تاریخ انتشار 2008