Improved automatic off-resonance correction without a field map in spiral imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 906-913

  Man, Lai Chee ^a   Pauly, John M ^a   Macovski, Albert ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blur; Inhomogeneity; MRI; Spiral

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE;

BLUR; CORRECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FIELD MAP ESTIMATIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INHOMOGENEITIES; SPIRAL; SPIRAL IMAGING;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031010874     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370616     Document Type: Article

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