A new diffusion SSFP imaging technique

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 716-722

  Zur, Yuval ^a   Bosak, Elyakim ^a,b   Kaplan, Noam ^b  

^a Elscint MRI Center   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

diffusion; pulse sequence; steady state free precession

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

BRAIN TISSUE; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; PULSE SEQUENCE; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 0030897466     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370513     Document Type: Article

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