Undersampling to acquire nuclear magnetic resonance images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 523-529

  Pérez, Pablo ^a   Santos, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct digital receiver; Foldback noise; Image reconstruction; NMR and MRI systems; Undersampling

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCANNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIGITAL RECEIVER; EXCITATION PULSES; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3242725205     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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