RF overflow artifact

Case contributed by J. Ray Ballinger
Diagnosis not applicable
mri

RF overflow artifacts cause a non-uniform, washed-out appearance to an image. This artifact occurs when the signal received by the scanner from the patient is too intense to be accurately digitized by the analog-to-digital converter.

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