Signal-to-noise ratio and signal-to-noise efficiency in SMASH imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1009-1022

  Sodickson, Daniel K ^a   Griswold, Mark A ^a   Jakob, Peter M ^a   Edelman, Robert R ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast imaging; RF coil arrays; SMASH imaging; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PIXELS;

COMBINATION STRATEGIES; FAST IMAGING; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE; RF COIL; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION OF SPATIAL HARMONICS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY;

EID: 0032951953     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199905)41:5<1009::AID-MRM21>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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