An optimization method for designing SENSE imaging RF coil arrays. J Magn Reson 2007 Jun;186(2):273-81
Date
04/13/2007Pubmed ID
17428711DOI
10.1016/j.jmr.2007.03.014Scopus ID
2-s2.0-34249932737 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 9 CitationsAbstract
An optimization method in RF coil array design for SENSE imaging is described. Using this method the optimized RF coil geometries can be calculated numerically given the required SENSE imaging performance. Although this method can be applied to optimize the RF coil arrays for both 1D and 2D SENSE imaging, to demonstrate the potential applications of this method, we designed RF coil arrays for 2D SENSE imaging and compared their performance by simulation. An optimized 4-channel receive-only RF coil array designed for 2D SENSE imaging was implemented and tested to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed technique. Imaging results showed reasonable agreement with the simulations, thus the method can be applied to RF coil array designs for SENSE imaging when optimum imaging performance is desired.
Author List
Chen G, Muftuler LT, Ha SH, Nalcioglu OAuthor
Lutfi Tugan Muftuler PhD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
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