Simultaneous image acquisition from the Head (or body) coil and a surface coil
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Vol. 6 (2), 235-239
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.1910060212
Abstract
Any number of coils can in principle be used simultaneously and independently in magnetic resonance imaging if the mutual inductances are sufficiently small. Surface coils and head or body coils have equal sensitivity at some crossover depth of the order of 6 to 10 cm. Using a 7.5‐cm‐diameter surface coil that was intrinsically isolated from the head coil, images were acquired simultaneously from both coils and combined to improve the signal‐to‐noise ratio at 6 cm depth by 21/2. A similar experiment with the body coil showed 21/2 improvement at about 8 cm depth. © 1988 Academic Press, Inc.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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