SNR Enhancement in Radial SSFP Imaging Using Partial k-Space Averaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 254-262

  Winkelmann, Stefanie ^a,b   Schaeffter, Tobias ^b   Eggers, Holger ^a   Doessel, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Averaging; magnetic resonance imaging; radial imaging; SNR; SSFP sequences

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 17444373495     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.840845     Document Type: Article

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