Three-dimensional triple-quantum-filtered 23Na imaging of in vivo human brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1146-1154

  Hancu, Ileana ^a,c   Boada, Fernando E ^b   Shen, Gary X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; RF inhomogeneity; Sodium imaging; Three pulse filter; Triple quantum imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; SODIUM;

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHERENCE TRANSFER; PROJECTION IMAGING; RF-INHOMOGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THREE PULSE FILTER; TRIPLE QUANTUM; TRIPLE QUANTUM-FILTERED;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SODIUM 23;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY;

EID: 0032756878     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199912)42:6<1146::AID-MRM20>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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