PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John F. Schenck
AU  - Howard R. Hart, Jr.
AU  - Thomas H. Foster
AU  - William A. Edelstein
AU  - Paul A. Bottomley
AU  - Rowland W. Redington
AU  - Christopher J. Hardy
AU  - Robert A. Zimmerman
AU  - Larissa T. Bilaniuk
TI  - Improved MR Imaging of the Orbit at 1.5 T with Surface Coils
DP  - 1985 Mar 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 193--196
VI  - 6
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/6/2/193.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/6/2/193.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1985 Mar 01; 6
AB  - A method for obtaining localized high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images of the eye and orbit is demonstrated. The method uses modified surface receiver coils placed immediately adjacent to the anatomy to detect the MR signal. Surface coils provide enhanced sensitivity for imaging voxels close to the surface of the body while limiting the received patient-generated noise. The resulting improvement in signal-to-noise ratio allows for a reduction in the imaging voxel size to about 0.5 × 0.5 × 5 mm in scan times of 3.4–5 min. At this level of resolution, anatomic detail in the orbital region previously unobservable in MR images is seen.