Generating positive contrast from off-resonant spins with steady-state free precession magnetic resonance imaging: Theory and proof-of-principle experiments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4201-4215

  Dharmakumar, Rohan ^a   Koktzoglou, Ioannis ^b   Li, Debiao ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION RATES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SIGNAL VOIDS; SPIN RELAXATION; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION (SSFP);

ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GEOMETRY; HEART; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; STEADY STATE;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33747595007     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/17/006     Document Type: Article

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