Improved depiction of small anatomic structures in MR images using Gaussian-weighted spirals and zero-filled interpolation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-112

  Elgavish, Rotem A ^a   Twieg, Donald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs ringing; Partial volume effect; Variable density k space sampling; Zero filled interpolation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EQUIPMENT; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0037311095     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00642-2     Document Type: Article

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