Processing of radial fast spin-echo data for obtaining T2 estimates from a single k-space data set

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 549-559

  Altbach, Maria I ^a   Bilgin, Ali ^b   Li, Zhiqiang ^b   Clarkson, Eric W ^a   Trouard, Theodore P ^b   Gmitro, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast spin echo; Projection reconstruction; Radial MRI; T2

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

COMPUTER-GENERATED PHANTOMS; FAST SPIN ECHOS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; K-SPACE DATUM; PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; T2 WEIGHTED; TIME-EFFICIENT;

DATA HANDLING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM;

EID: 24144492159     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20611     Document Type: Article

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