Single-scan quantitative T2* methods with susceptibility artifact reduction

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 527-534

  Franconi, Florence ^a   Mowat, Pierre ^b   Lemaire, Laurent ^b   Richomme, Pascal ^a   Le Jeune, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a UFR Sciences   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

High field magnetic resonance imaging; Single scan quantitative T2* magnetic resonance imaging; Susceptibility artifact compensation

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLE ECHO GRADIENT-ECHO SLICE-EXCITATION PROFILE IMAGING; MULTIPLE ECHO SUBSLICE AVERAGING IMAGING; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACT COMPENSATION;

BRAIN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747357501     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1014     Document Type: Article

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