Elimination of artifacts in short echo time 1H MR spectroscopy of the frontal lobe

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 462-468

  Ernst, Thomas ^a   Chang, Linda ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

artifacts; localized spectroscopy; proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; quality

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

ARTIFACTS; AXIAL DIRECTION; DEPHASING; ECHO TIME; FRONTAL LOBES; HUMAN BRAIN; MR SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL QUALITY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0029737665     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360320     Document Type: Article

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