Improved cardiac sodium MR imaging by density-weighted phase-encoding

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-81

  Greiser, Andreas ^a,b   Haase, Axel ^a   Von Kienlin, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition weighting; Density weighting; k space; Point spread function; Sodium cardiac imaging

Indexed keywords

SODIUM 23;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DENSITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 11144256502     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20237     Document Type: Article

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