Two-point Dixon technique for water-fat signal decomposition with B0 inhomogeneity correction

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 884-889

  Coombs, Bernard D ^a   Szumowski, Jerzy ^b   Coshow, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chemical shift; Dixon; Fat suppression MRI; Phase sensitive MRI

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; SPIN POLARIZATION;

DIXON; FAT SUPPRESSION; FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; PHASE SENSITIVE; PHASE UNWRAPPING; RESONANCE SIGNALS; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

WATER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST; DECOMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0030662535     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380606     Document Type: Article

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