Slice profile effects in adiabatic inversion: Application to multislice perfusion imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 558-564

  Frank, Lawrence R ^a,b   Wong, Eric C ^a   Buxton, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic inversion; Multi slice perfusion imaging; Pulse arterial tagging

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC INVERSIONS; GROSS ERRORS; HUMAN VOLUNTEERS; PERFUSION IMAGES; PERFUSION IMAGING; PULSE ARTERIAL TAGGING; RELAXATION EFFECT; SIGNAL VARIATIONS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MAGNETISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 0030883659     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380409     Document Type: Article

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