Functional MRI of the lumbar spine in erect position in a superconducting open-configuration MR system: Preliminary results

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1329-1333

  Zamani, Amir A ^a   Moriarty, Thomas ^a   Hsu, Liangge ^a   Winalski, Carl S ^a   Schaffer, Jonathan L ^a   Isbister, Holly ^a   Schenck, John F ^b   Rohling, Kenneth W ^b   Jolesz, Ferenc ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Disk bulge; Flexion extension MR; Functional spinal MR; Open configuration MR system; Spinal canal size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING;

EID: 0031755775     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080622     Document Type: Article

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