Macroscopic susceptibility in ultra high field MRI. II: Acquisition of spin echo images from the human head

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 842-844

  Abduljalil, Amir M ^a   Kangarlu, Allahyar ^a   Yu, Ying ^a   Robitaille, Pierre Marie L ^a,b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Techniques

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; RESONANCE; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ANATOMY; FRONTAL LOBES; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GRADIENT ECHO; HIGH FIELD MRI; HUMAN HEAD; MR SIGNALS; SPIN ECHO; TECHNIQUE; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKULL BASE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032725944     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199911000-00005     Document Type: Article

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