Fat suppressed MRI of articular cartilage with a spatial-spectral excitation pulse

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1279-1287

  Hardy, Peter A ^a   Recht, Michael P ^a   Piraino, David W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; RF pulses; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031727184     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080615     Document Type: Article

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