2D multislice and 3D MRI sequences are often equally sensitive

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 824-828

  Johnson, Glyn ^a   Wadghiri, Youssef Zain ^b   Turnbull, Daniel H ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mri; Sensitivity; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; MRI SEQUENCES; MULTI SLICES; SENSITIVITY; T1-WEIGHTED; THEORETICAL MODELING; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032964166     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199904)41:4<824::AID-MRM23>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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