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High SNR flexible top hat monopole probe for 1.5 T MRI @import url(http://ej.iop.org/style/nu/EJ.css); User guide Site map Institutional login IOP login: Password: Create account | Alerts | Contact us Journals Home | Journals List | EJs Extra | This Journal | Search | Authors | Referees | Librarians | User Options | Help | Previous article | Next article | This volume | This issue | Content finder High SNR flexible top hat monopole probe for 1.5 T MRI M Mohammadzadeh et al 2006 Meas. Sci. Technol. 17 1987-1994 doi: 10.1088/0957-0233/17/7/043 PDF (432 KB) | References M Mohammadzadeh1, M Shahabadi2, H Soltanian-Zadeh3,4, A Tavakoli5, B Rafiei6, D Javidnia6 and M A Oghabian7 1 Department of Physics, Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 3 Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 4 Image Analysis Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA 5 Department of Electrical Engineering, Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 6 Medical Imaging Center, Imam Khomeyni Hospital, Tehran, Iran 7 Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranAbstract. In this paper, design principles and application of a thin and flexible intravascular top hat monopole probe with increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and improved longitudinal and radial coverage are described and compared with the conventional monopole probe. The top hat probe is constructed by removing a segment of the shield of a coaxial cable. A flexible thin copper foil in contact with the inner conductor of the cable is added to the end section of the cable. The copper foil acts as an antenna top hat load increasing the uniformity of the current distribution on the probe and establishes a uniform region of SNR distribution around the probe. Improvement of the SNR distribution of the top hat probe relative to the conventional monopole probe is evaluated using quantitative indices. Experimental results show that for the top hat probe, the ratio of the maximum image SNR to its relative standard deviation (SR) is 2.73 times higher than that of a conventional probe.Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), intravascular imaging, top hat monopole probe, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), field uniformity, imaging field of view (FOV) Print publication: Issue 7 (July 2006)Received 16 January 2006, in final form 8 April 2006 Published 21 June 2006 PDF (432 KB) | References Find related articles By author M MohammadzadehM ShahabadiH Soltanian-ZadehA TavakoliB RafieiD JavidniaM A Oghabian IOP CrossRef Search Article options E-mail this abstractDownload citationAdd to Filing CabinetCreate e-mail alertsRecommend this journal Authors & Referees Author services NEWSubmit an articleTrack your articleReferee servicesSubmit referee report Previous article | Next article | This volume | This issue Full Search Help Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Biomedical Materials British Journal of Applied Physics (1950-1967) Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics (1987-2007) Chinese Physics (2000-2007) Chinese Physics B Chinese Physics Letters Classical and Quantum Gravity Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement (1980-1992) Communications in Theoretical Physics Computational Science & Discovery Distributed Systems Engineering (1993-1999) Environmental Research Letters European Journal of Physics Europhysics Letters (EPL) IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Inverse Problems Izvestiya: Mathematics Journal of Breath Research Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal of Geophysics and Engineering Journal of High Energy Physics Journal of Instrumentation Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Journal of Neural Engineering Journal of Nuclear Energy, Part C (1959-1966) Journal of Optics (1977-1998) Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (1999-2005) Journal of Physics A: General Physics (1968-1972) Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (1975-2006) Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General (1973-1974) Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics (1968-1987) Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics (1968-1988) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Journal of Physics: Conference Series Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments (1968-1989) Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics (1971-1988) Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics (1975-1988) Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics Journal of Radiological Protection Journal of Scientific Instruments (1923-1967) Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection (1981-1987) Mathematics of the USSR - Sbornik (1967-1993) Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya (1967-1992) Measurement Science and Technology Metrologia Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering Nanotechnology New Journal of Physics Nonlinearity Nouvelle Revue d'Optique (1973-1976) Nouvelle Revue d'Optique AppliquГ©e (1970-1972) Nuclear Fusion Physica Scripta Physical Biology Physics Education Physics in Medicine and Biology Physics in Technology (1973-1988) Physics-Uspekhi Physiological Measurement Plasma Physics (1967-1983) Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Plasma Science and Technology Plasma Sources Science and Technology Proceedings of the Physical Society (1926-1948) Proceedings of the Physical Society (1958-1967) Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1874-1925) Proceedings of the Physical Society. 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