Consistent fat suppression with compensated spectral-spatial pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 198-206

  Block, Walter ^a   Pauly, John ^a   Kerr, Adam ^a   Nishimura, Dwight ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat suppression; Magnetic resonance imaging; T2 imaging

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; EXCITATION PULSE; FAST SPIN ECHOS; FAT SUPPRESSION; GRADIENT SYSTEMS; INHOMOGENEITIES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; T2-WEIGHTED IMAGING;

EDDY CURRENTS;

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030816746     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380207     Document Type: Article

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