Water-fat imaging with direct phase encoding

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1002-1015

  Xiang, Qing San ^a,b   An, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical shift imaging; Image processing; Phase encoding; Physics; Simple proton spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY WATER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0031401552     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880070612     Document Type: Article

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