Local Multi-Channel RF Surface Coil versus Body RF Coil Transmission for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance at 3 Tesla: Which Configuration Is Winning the Game?

• Oliver Weinberger,

  Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Lukas Winter,

  Affiliation Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany

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• Matthias A. Dieringer,

  Current address: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Berlin and Erlangen, Germany

  Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

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• Antje Els,

  Affiliation Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany

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• Celal Oezerdem,

  Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany

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• Jan Rieger,

  Affiliation MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Andre Kuehne,

  Affiliation MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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• Antonino M. Cassara,

  Current address: IT'IS Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society, Zurich, Switzerland

  Affiliation Medical Metrology Department, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany

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• Harald Pfeiffer,

  Affiliation Medical Metrology Department, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany

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• Friedrich Wetterling,

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Thoralf Niendorf

  * E-mail: Thoralf.Niendorf@mdc-berlin.de

  Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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