High signal-to-noise flash imaging at 8 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1099-1103

  Burgess, Richard E ^a   Yu, Ying ^a   Abduljalil, Amir M ^a   Kangarlu, Allahyar ^a   Robitaille, Pierre Marie L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal to noise; Ultra high field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032831182     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00072-7     Document Type: Article

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