A modified sub-second fast-STEAM sequence incorporating bipolar gradients for in vivo diffusion imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 911-916

  Yongbi, Martin N ^b   Ding, Shujun ^a   Dunn, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

bipolar gradients, D value, motion artifact; Fast STEAM

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ACQUISITION MODES; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; BIPOLAR DIFFUSION; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSION IMAGING; MOTION ARTIFACT; ORTHOGONAL AXES; STIMULATED ECHOS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029945173     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350620     Document Type: Article

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