Multicontrast sequences with continuous table motion: A novel acquisition technique for extended field of view imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 918-922

  Sommer, Gregor ^a   Fautz, Hans Peter ^a   Ludwig, Ute ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic slice adaptation; Extended FOV; Moving table MRI; Multicontrast imaging; Whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SLICES; EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEWS; EXTENDED FOV; HIGH TIME EFFICIENCY; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; MULTIPLE DATA SETS; SPATIAL PARAMETERS; WHOLE BODY MRI;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTINUOUS TABLE MOTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; MULTICONTRAST IMAGING; PARAMETER; THICKNESS; TIME; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33645770672     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20838     Document Type: Article

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