Balanced phase-contrast steady-state free precession (PC-SSFP): A novel technique for velocity encoding by gradient inversion

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 945-952

  Markl, Michael ^a   Alley, M T ^a   Pelc, N J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced SSFP; Cine MRI; Flow quantification; Phase contrast MRI; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL ENCODING; VELOCITY;

BALANCED SSFP; CINE-MRI; FLOW QUANTIFICATION; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; VELOCITY MAPPING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALANCED PHASE CONTRAST STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PULSATILE FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037407393     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10451     Document Type: Article

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