Fast 3D large-angle spin-echo imaging (3D FLASE)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 903-910

  Ma, Jingfei ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a,b   Song, Hee Kwon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

large flip angle imaging; microscopy; spin echo; trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLIP ANGLE; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; SPIN ECHO; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; TRABECULAR BONES; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TECHNIQUE; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 0029894505     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350619     Document Type: Article

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