Elimination of eddy current artifacts in diffusion-weighted echo-planar images: The use of bipolar gradients

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1016-1021

  Alexander, Andrew L ^a   Tsuruda, Jay S ^a   Parker, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Distortion correction; Echo planar; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BIPOLAR DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GRADIENT FIELDS; GRADIENT WAVEFORMS; IMAGE DISTORTIONS;

EDDY CURRENTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0030726221     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380623     Document Type: Article

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