Correction for EPI distortions using multi-echo gradient-echo imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1206-1213

  Chen, Nan Kuei ^a   Wyrwicz, Alice M ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for MR Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Echo planar imaging (EPI); Field mapping; Geometrical distortions; Multi channel modulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION;

DISTORTION CORRECTION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FIELD MAPPING; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; MULTI-CHANNEL MODULATION; PHASE-DISCONTINUITIES; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032994289     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199906)41:6<1206::AID-MRM17>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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