Publications by authors named "W Renz"

More than 200 viruses infect humans, but treatments are available for less than ten of them. To narrow the gap between 'bugs and drugs,' a paradigm shift is required. The "one drug, one bug" approach can be expanded to a "one drug, multiple bugs" strategy such that the host's defense system is targeted rather than the virus.

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Skin sodium (Na(+) ) storage, as a physiologically important regulatory mechanism for blood pressure, volume regulation and, indeed, survival, has recently been rediscovered. This has prompted the development of MRI methods to assess Na(+) storage in humans ((23) Na MRI) at 3.0 T.

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Purpose: To design and evaluate a modular transceiver coil array with 32 independent channels for cardiac MRI at 7.0T.

Methods: The modular coil array comprises eight independent building blocks, each containing four transceiver loop elements.

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The sensitivity gain of ultrahigh field Magnetic Resonance (UHF-MR) holds the promise to enhance spatial and temporal resolution. Such improvements could be beneficial for cardiovascular MR. However, intracoronary stents used for treatment of coronary artery disease are currently considered to be contra-indications for UHF-MR.

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Purpose: To design, evaluate, and apply a 2D 16-channel transmit/receive (TX/RX) coil array tailored for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7.0 T.

Materials And Methods: The cardiac coil array consists of two sections each using eight elements arranged in a 2 × 4 array.

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