Short name: P792, generic name: Gadomeritol
A macromolecular Gd-DOTA derivate under development (phase II, Guerbet SA) as a positive enhancing blood pool agent (MRI contrast agent) for, e.g. myocard perfusion and tumor characterization.

See also Blood Pool Agents.

(V) The SI unit of electric potential.
Definition: The amount of potential energy present per unit of charge. 1 volt representing a potential of 1 joule per coulomb of charge.
The unit is named for the Italian scientist Count Alessandro Volta.

Radio frequency coil that surrounds either the whole body, or one specific region, such as the head or a knee. Volume coils have a better RF homogeneity than surface coils, which extends over a large area. The most commonly used design is a (birdcage) bird cage coil. This consists of a number of wires running along the z-direction, arranged to give a cosine current variation around the circumference of the coil. It is possible to use the same coil to transmit and receive, or to use two separate coils. The largest volume coil, the body coil is typically a transmit and receive coil. If two separate coils are used, works the body coil as the transmitter and a smaller coil as the receiver.

See also the related poll result: '3rd party coils are better than the original manufacturer coils'

(VEST) The 'Volume Excitation Stimulated Echoes' sequence is a method similar to point resolved spectroscopy with stimulated echoes and volume selective excitation.

Imaging techniques in which NMR signals are gathered from the whole object volume to be imaged at once, with appropriate encoding pulse RF and gradient sequences to encode positions of the spins. Many sequential plane imaging techniques can be generalized to volume imaging, at least in principle. Advantages include potential improvement in signal to noise ratio by including signal from the whole volume at once; disadvantages include a bigger computational task for image reconstruction and longer image acquisition times (although the entire volume can be imaged from the one set of data). Also called simultaneous volume imaging.