'Silent' MRI with soft gradient pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 6-10

  Hennel, F ^a,b   Girard, F ^b   Loenneker, T ^b  

^a SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^b FORENAP   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; MRI; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRADIENT SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; LINEAR-RESPONSE THEORY; PULSE SEQUENCE; RAPID ACQUISITION; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0032768595     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199907)42:1<6::AID-MRM2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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