A Fast Variant of 1H Spectroscopic U-FLARE Imaging Using Adjusted Chemical Shift Phase Encoding

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 241-253

  Ebel, Andreas ^a,b   Dreher, Wolfgang ^a   Leibfritz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusted chemical shift phase encoding; Proton NMR spectroscopic imaging; Rat brain; U FLARE

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS;

EID: 0034132496     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1999.1936     Document Type: Article

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