A general method for measurement of the time integral of variant magnetic field gradients: Application to 2D spiral imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 567-578

  Papadakis, Nikolaos G ^a   Wilkinson, Adam A ^a   Carpenter, T Adrian ^a   Hall, Laurance D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fast imaging; k Space trajectory; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spiral scan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030754566     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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