Echo-volumar imaging (EVI) at 0.5 T: First whole-body volunteer studies

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 80-88

  Harvey, Paul R ^a   Mansfield, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Snapshot volumar MRI

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIZES; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN VOLUNTEERS; ITS APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME DISPLAY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; WHOLE BODY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030066541     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910350111     Document Type: Article

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