Single-shot half-Fourier RARE sequence with ultra short inter-echo spacing for lung imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 336-339

  Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a,b   Oshio, Koichi ^c   Uematsu, Hidemasa ^a   Nakatsu, Masashi ^a   Gefter, Warren B ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Half Fourier imaging; Lung; Magnetic resonance (MR); Pulse sequence; Rapid imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE SHOT HALF FOURIER RAPID ACQUISITION RELAXATION ENHANCEMENT; ULTRA SHORT INTER ECHO SPACING;

ADULT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3242801268     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20107     Document Type: Article

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