In-plane velocity encoding with coherent steady-state imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 138-145

  Grinstead, John ^a,b   Sinha, Shantanu ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow quantification; Phase contrast; Steady state free precession; trueFISP PC; Velocity mapping

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING; VELOCITY;

FLOW QUANTIFICATION; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PARTICLE TRACKING; PHASE CONTRASTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; VELOCITY MAPPING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE;

EID: 21244452331     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20526     Document Type: Article

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