Saturated double-angle method for rapid B1+ mapping

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1326-1333

  Cunningham, Charles H ^a   Pauly, John M ^a   Nayak, Krishna S ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

B1+ mapping; Body MRI; Double angle method; High field imaging; Spirals

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS;

ANGLE METHOD; CARDIAC IMAGING; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIGH FIELD; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPIRALS; VOLUMETRIC COVERAGES;

MAPPING;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 33744956872     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20896     Document Type: Article

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