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To date there is no single reference aimed at teaching the art ofapplications guided coil design for use in MRI. This RF Coilsfor MRI handbook is intended to become thisreference.
Heretofore, much of the know-how of RF coil design is bottled upin various industry and academic laboratories around the world.Some of this information on coil technologies and applicationstechniques has been disseminated through the literature, while moreof this knowledge has been withheld for competitive or proprietaryadvantage. Of the published works, the record of technologydevelopment is often incomplete and misleading, accuratereferencing and attribution assignment being tantamount toadmission of patent infringement in the commercial arena. Accordingly, the literature on RF coil design is fragmented andconfusing. There are no texts and few courses offered toteach this material. Mastery of the art and science of RF coildesign is perhaps best achieved through the learning that comeswith a long career in the field at multiple places ofemployment…until now.
RF Coils for MRI combines the lifetime understandingand expertise of many of the senior designers in the field into asingle, practical training manual. It informs the engineer on partnumbers and sources of component materials, equipment, engineeringservices and consulting to enable anyone with electronics benchexperience to build, test and interface a coil. The handbookteaches the MR system user how to safely and successfully implementthe coil for its intended application. The comprehensive articlesalso include information required by the scientist or physician topredict respective experiment or clinical performance of a coil fora variety of common applications. It is expectedthat RF Coils for MRI becomes an important resource forengineers, technicians, scientists, and physicians wanting tosafely and successfully buy or build and use MR coils in the clinicor laboratory. Similarly, this guidebook provides teachingmaterial for students, fellows and residents wanting to betterunderstand the theory and operation of RF coils.
Many of the articles have been written by the pioneers anddevelopers of coils, arrays and probes, so this is all first handinformation! The handbook serves as an expository guide forhands-on radiologists, radiographers, physicians, engineers,medical physicists, technologists, and for anyone with interests inbuilding or selecting and using RF coils to achieve best clinicalor experimental results.
About EMR Handbooks / eMagResHandbooks
The Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (up to 2012) andeMagRes (from 2013 onward) publish a wide range of onlinearticles on all aspects of magnetic resonance in physics,chemistry, biology and medicine. The existence of this large numberof articles, written by experts in various fields, is enabling thepublication of a series of EMR Handbooks / eMagResHandbooks on specific areas of NMR and MRI. Thechapters of each of these handbooks will comprise a carefullychosen selection of articles from eMagRes. In consultationwith the eMagRes Editorial Board, the EMRHandbooks / eMagRes Handbooks are coherentlyplanned in advance by specially-selected Editors, and new articlesare written (together with updates of some already existingarticles) to give appropriate complete coverage. The handbooks areintended to be of value and interest to research students,postdoctoral fellows and other researchers learning about thescientific area in question and undertaking relevant experiments,whether in academia or industry.
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