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تسجيل مستخدم جديدImage acceleration in parallel magnetic resonance imaging by means of metamaterial magnetoinductive lenses
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Parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique of image acceleration which takes advantage of the localization of the field of view (FOV) of coils in an array. In this letter we show that metamaterial lenses based on capacitively-loaded rings can provide higher localization of the FOV. Several lens designs are systematically analyzed in order to find the structure providing higher signal-to-noise-ratio. The magnetoinductive (MI) lens is find to be the optimum structure and an experiment is developed to show it. The ability of the fabricated MI lenses to accelerate the image is quantified by means of the parameter known in the MRI community as g-factor.
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