Dynamic shimming for multi-slice magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 477-483

  Morrell, Glen ^a,c   Spielman, Daniel ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic shimming; Echo planar imaging; Fat saturation; Spiral imaging

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CENTER FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC SHIMMING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHOS; IMAGING SEQUENCE; PULSE SEQUENCE; SPIRAL IMAGING; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

SHIMS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030983944     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380316     Document Type: Article

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