Fast proton spectroscopic imaging employing k-space weighting achieved by variable repetition times

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 457-464

  Kühn, Bernd ^a   Dreher, Wolfgang ^a   Norris, David G ^a   Leibfritz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

k space weighting; proton spectroscopic imaging; rat brain

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RATS;

ACQUISITION TIME; COUPLED RESONANCE; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; K SPACE; METABOLIC INFORMATION; PARAMETER DEPENDENTS; RAT BRAIN; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029881361     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350403     Document Type: Article

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