Sensitivity encoding as a means of enhancing the SNR efficiency in steady-state MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-185

  Weiger, Markus ^a,c   Boesiger, Peter ^a   Hilfiker, Paul R ^b   Weishaupt, Dominik ^b   Pruessmann, Klaas P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BRUKER BIOSPIN AG   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced MRA; Parallel MRI; SENSE; SNR efficiency; Steady state gradient echo imaging

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EFFICIENCY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL ENCODING;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; HARDWARE PARAMETERS; PARALLEL MRI; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; SENSE; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; STEADY STATE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL DESIGN; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STEADY STATE;

EID: 12144280400     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20322     Document Type: Article

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