Reduced aliasing artifacts using variable-density k-space sampling trajectories

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 452-458

  Tsai, Chi Ming ^a   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing artifacts; MRI; Nyquist criterion; Spiral trajectory; Variable density sampling

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPACE PLATFORMS; TRAJECTORIES;

ALIASING ARTIFACTS; K-SPACE SAMPLING; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; NYQUIST CRITERIA; SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORMS; VARIABLE DENSITY; VARIABLE DENSITY SAMPLINGS;

ANTI-ALIASING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DENSITY; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034007629     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(200003)43:3<452::AID-MRM18>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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