Optimizing the Sequence Parameters for Double-Quantum CRAZED Imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 148-157

  Marques, J P ^a   Bowtell, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distant dipole field; DQ CRAZED; Optimization; Phase cycling; Steady state

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISTANT-DIPOLE FIELD; DQ-CRAZED; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CYCLING; REPEATED APPLICATION; SEQUENCE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL CONTRIBUTION; STEADY STATE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0347003636     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10700     Document Type: Article

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