Signal profile measurements of single- and double-volume acquisitions with image-selected in vivo spectroscopy for 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 829-837

  Ljungberg, Maria ^a   Starck, Göran ^a   Vikhoff Baaz, Barbro ^a   Forssell Aronsson, Eva ^a   Alpsten, Magne ^a   Ekholm, Sven ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

31P; Double volume; ISIS; MRS; Phantom; Signal profile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHORIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031790491     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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