Robust prescan calibration for multiple spin-echo sequences: application to FSE and b-SSFP

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 857-867

  Bowen, Chris V ^a   Gati, Joseph S ^b   Menon, Ravi S ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artifact; Fast spin echo; FIESTA; Knee; MRI; Prescan; SSFP; TrueFISP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; KNEE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEADY STATE; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; KNEE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 33747019207     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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