Signal behavior in continuously ramped 2D TrueFISP for whole-body imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1085-1090

  Fautz, Hans Peter ^a   Leupold, Jochen ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breathhold; Phase encoding trajectory; Slice profile; SSFP; Whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL ENCODING;

BREATH-HOLD; PHASE ENCODING; SLICE PROFILE; SSFP; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 0036893018     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10323     Document Type: Article

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