Strategies for inner volume 3D fast spin echo magnetic resonance imaging using nonselective refocusing radio frequency pulses

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-186

  Mitsouras, Dimitris ^a,c   Mulkern, Robert V ^b   Rybicki, Frank J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D MRI; Fast spin echo MRI; High resolution imaging; Inner volume MRI; Multiple echo pulse sequence; Spatial excitation

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION; RADIO WAVES; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ALIASING ARTIFACTS; CARRPURCELL-MEIBOOM-GILL (CPMG); CLINICAL APPLICATION; FAST SPIN ECHOS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; PULSE SEQUENCE; RADIO FREQUENCY PULSE; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETISM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FAST SPIN ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 31044435179     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2148331     Document Type: Article

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