Quantification and reduction of ghosting artifacts in interleaved echo- planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 429-439

  Reeder, Scott B ^a   Atalar, Ergin ^a   Bolster Jr , Bradley D ^a   McVeigh, Elliot R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; EPI; Functional imaging; MRI; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME DELAY;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ARTIFACTS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); GHOSTING ARTIFACTS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030924013     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380312     Document Type: Article

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