An algorithm for numerical calculation of the k-space data-weighting for polarly sampled trajectories: Application to spiral imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 785-794

  Papadakis, Nikolaos G ^a   Carpenter, T Adrian ^a   Hall, Laurance D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Medicinal Chemistry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fast imaging; Image reconstruction; k space trajectory; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spiral scan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030982539     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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