Acquisition of human multislice MR images at 8 Tesla

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-340

  Abduljalil, Amir M ^a   Kangarlu, Allahyar ^a   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^a   Burgess, Richard E ^a   Robitaille, Pierre Marie L ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging, techniques

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ENGLAND; FREE-HEAD; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN BRAIN; HUMAN HEAD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, TECHNIQUE; MR-IMAGES; MULTI SLICES; RF COIL; ULTRA-HIGH-FREQUENCY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0032906945     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199905000-00001     Document Type: Article

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