Automatic gradient preemphasis adjustment: A 15-minute journey to improved diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 208-212

  Schmithorst, Vincent J ^a   Dardzinski, Bernard J ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; Eddy current; Gradient; MRI; Preemphasis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EDDY CURRENTS; GRADIENT METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION GRADIENTS; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; GRADIENT DIRECTION; PRE-EMPHASIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 0036135290     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10022     Document Type: Article

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