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ArticleIEEE transactions on medical imaging2018

A Dedicated 36-Channel Receive Array for Fetal MRI at 3T.

Qiaoyan Chen, Guoxi Xie, Chao Luo, Xing Yang, Jin Zhu, Jo Lee, Shi Su, Dong Liang, Xiaoliang Zhang, Xin Liu and 2 more

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Article in IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Design and evaluation of multimodal concentric surface coils for 3T MR imaging.Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ... Scientific Meeting and Exhibition. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition · 2025
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  3. Adaptable, wearable, and stretchable coils: A review.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2025
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  5. Development of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) phantom.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024
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  6. Coupled stack-up volume RF coils for low-field open MR imaging.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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  8. Magnetic resonance imaging of the monkey fetal brain in utero.Investigative magnetic resonance imaging · 2022
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  10. Fetal Neuroimaging Updates.Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America · 2021
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  12. Broad Learning EnhancedComputational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Qiaoyan Chen
Guoxi Xie
Chao Luo
Xing Yang
Jin Zhu
Jo Lee
Shi Su
Dong Liang
Xiaoliang Zhang
Xin Liu
Ye Li
Hairong Zheng

Funding

Enhanced MR for morphological characterization of ligaments, tendons and boneU01EB023829 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LI, XIAOJUAN, ZHANG, XIAOLIANG · 2018 to 2024
$1.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB023829
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to a lack of fetal imaging coils, the standard commercial abdominal coil is often used for fetal imaging, the performance of which is limited by its insufficient coverage, element number, and Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this paper, a dedicated 36-channel coil array, of which size can best fit the body sizes of pregnancy gestation from 20 to 37+ weeks, was designed for fetal imaging at 3T. SNR with full phase encoding and G-factor denoted as noise amplification for parallel imaging were quantitatively evaluated by phantom studies. Compared with a commercial abdominal coil array, the proposed 36-channel fetal array provides not only SNR improvements in full phase encoding (with 10% in the region where the whole fetal body was located, and up to 40% in the edge region where the fetal brain and heart may appear) but also an augmented parallel imaging capability and remarkable SNR improvements at high acceleration factors.

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BrainEquipment DesignFemaleFetusHeartHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingPhantoms, ImagingPregnancyPrenatal Diagnosis

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PMID29994303
PMCPMC6312740

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