Robust Automated Shimming Technique Using Arbitrary Mapping Acquisition Parameters (RASTAMAP)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 881-887

  Klassen, L Martyn ^a,b   Menon, Ravi S ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic shimming; B0 inhomogeneity; Phase mapping

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BANDWIDTH; EDDY CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAPPING; SHIMS;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; AUTOMATIC SHIMMING; BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; INHOMOGENEITIES; MAGNETIC FIELD HOMOGENEITY; PHASE MAPPINGS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ACCURACY; ARBITRARY MAPPING ACQUISITION PARAMETER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; ERROR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ROBUST AUTOMATED SHIMMING TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 2342461709     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20094     Document Type: Article

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