New insights into the mechanisms of signal formation in RF-spoiled gradient echo sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 937-954

  Denolin, Vincent ^a   Azizieh, Céline ^b   Metens, Thierry ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Echo shifting; Fast imaging; Gradient echo; Partition method; RF spoiling; Steady state

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; RELAXATION TIME;

ECHO SHIFTING; FAST IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO; PARTITION METHODS; RF SPOILING; STEADY STATE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEADY STATE; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 26844571284     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20652     Document Type: Article

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