Title :
Parallel acquisition of MR images using time multiplexed coils
Author :
Wright, S.W. ; Porter, Jay R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
A new technique for parallel acquisition of magnetic resonance images is described. Two RF coils are time multiplexed into a single receiver channel, halving the effective image acquisition time with no degradation in signal-to-noise ratio. Noise filtering is performed with RF bandpass filters. In principle, the method can be extended to additional coils.
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; data acquisition; picture processing; RF bandpass filters; RF coils; SNR; magnetic resonance images; noise filtering; parallel acquisition; single receiver channel; time multiplexed; time multiplexed coils;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19920044
