The effect of varying spectral resolution on the quality of high spectral and spatial resolution magnetic resonance images of the breast

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 442-448

  Medved, Milica ^a   Du, Weiliang ^a   Zamora, Marta A ^a   Fan, Xiaobing ^a   Olopade, Olufunmilayo I ^a   MacEneaney, Peter M ^a   Newstead, Gillian ^a   Karczmar, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Contrast agent effects; Echo planar spectroscopic imaging; Fat suppression; High spectral and spatial resolution spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0141618489     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10378     Document Type: Article

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