Excitation of Complicated Shapes in Three Dimensions

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 466-477

  Serša, Igor ^a   Macura, Slobodan ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

K space trajectory; Spectroscopic imaging; Volume selective excitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032245782     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1998.1592     Document Type: Article

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