Routine clinical brain MRI sequences for use at 3.0 tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-22

  Lu, Hanzhang ^a,b   Nagae Poetscher, Lidia M ^a,b   Golay, Xavier ^a,b   Lin, Doris ^a   Pomper, Martin ^a   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Clinical MRI; FLAIR; High field; T1; T2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 21244468325     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20356     Document Type: Article

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