Quality assessment of localization technique performance in small volume in vivo 1H MR spectroscopy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1511-1519

  Burtscher, Isabella M ^a   Johansson, Edvin ^a   Holtås, Stig ^a   Ståhlberg, Freddy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Localization techniques; Phantom; Proton MRS; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTIFACTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

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EID: 0032729884     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00076-4     Document Type: Article

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