Chemical shift artifact-free microscopy: Spectroscopic microimaging of the human skin

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 904-908

  Weis, Jan ^a   Ericsson, Anders ^a   Hemmingsson, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical shift artifacts; Human skin; NMR microscopy; Proton spectroscopic microimaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DATA HANDLING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HUMAN SKIN; HUMAN SKIN IN VIVO; MICRO-IMAGING; NMR MICROSCOPY; RECEIVER BANDWIDTHS; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

CHEMICAL SHIFT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 0032900417     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199905)41:5<904::AID-MRM8>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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