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Clinical – Pediatric Imaging
Axial T2 images from serial 3T MRI brain studies of a premature infant.
3T MRI in Pediatrics: Challenges and Clinical Applications
Charuta Dagia; Michael Ditchfield, M.D.
Department of Medical Imaging, The Royal Children’s Hospital & Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne, Australia
The primary reason for increasing the magnetic field strength in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is to take advantage of the linear relationship between field strength and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
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*The safety of imaging fetuses / infants has not been established.
