Novel rapid fat suppression strategy with spectrally selective pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1569-1574

  Peng, Qi ^a,c   McColl, Roderick W ^a   Wang, Jihong ^b   Weatherall, Paul T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical shift selective imaging; Fat suppression; Frequency selective; Gradient echo; MRI; Rapid imaging; Spatial spectral excitation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT;

CHEMICAL SHIFT SELECTIVE IMAGING; FAT SUPPRESSION; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; GRADIENT ECHO; RAPID IMAGING; SPECTRAL EXCITATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FAT; WATER;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FAST FIELD ECHO METHOD; FAT SUPPRESSION METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL SPECTRAL EXCITATION METHOD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TIME; TURBO FIELD ECHO METHOD; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 28444480676     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20694     Document Type: Article

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