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Abstract #4405

New Results for Digital Beamforming in MRI

Emad Ebbini1, Lance DelaBarre2, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Vaughan3, Anand Gopinath4

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 2Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 3CMRR, Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 4ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Recent novel results on digital beam forming of MRI signals are presented. These show that digital beam forming has gain, enhances contrast and reduces signal to noise ratio.

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