Improved gradient-echo 3D magnetic resonance imaging using pseudo-echoes created by frequency-swept pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 848-857

  Park, Jang Yeon ^a   DelaBarre, Lance ^a   Garwood, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; Frequency swept pulse; Image reconstruction; MRI; Pseudo echo; Sliding window

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CHIRP MODULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIN COMPOUNDS;

ADIABATIC PULSE; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; FREQUENCY SWEPT; PSEUDO-ECHO; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; SLIDING WINDOW; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33645784534     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20821     Document Type: Article

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