Robust fully automated shimming of the human brain for high-field 1H spectroscopic imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-33

  Hetherington, Hoby P ^a   Chu, Wen Jang ^a   Gonen, Oded ^b   Pan, Jullie W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bo mapping; Brain; Glutamate; MRSI; Shimming

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAPPING;

AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENT; FULLY AUTOMATED; GLUTAMATE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MRSI; SHIMMING; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

BRAIN MAPPING;

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33745727923     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20941     Document Type: Article

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