Feasibility of dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MR imaging at 3T using a standard quadrature head coil and eight-channel phased-array coil with and without SENSE reconstruction

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 520-529

  Lupo, Janine M ^a,b,d   Lee, Michael C ^a   Han, Eric T ^c   Cha, Soonmee ^a   Chang, Susan M ^a   Berger, Mitchel S ^a   Nelson, Sarah J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UCSF Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

3T; Distortion; EPI; Perfusion imaging; SENSE; SNR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748273322     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20673     Document Type: Article

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