Adiabatic RARE imaging

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-35

  de Graaf, Robin A ^a   Rothman, Douglas L ^a   Behar, Kevin L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic RF pulses; High magnetic field; RARE; Rat brain; Surface coil; Ultra fast MRI

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER PULSES;

QUANTITATIVE MAPPING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0037291628     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.811     Document Type: Article

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