Magnetic resonance imaging of short T2 relaxation components in tissue using ultrashort echo time (UTE) pulse sequences

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-90

  Bydder, Mark ^a   Znamirowski, Richard M ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Pulse sequences; Short T2 tissues; Ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE COURSE; JOINT; LIGAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIOSTEUM; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; TENDON; TIBIA;

EID: 33745833390     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340506775541640     Document Type: Review

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