Excitation UNFOLD (XUNFOLD) to improve the temporal resolution of multishot tailored RF pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 692-697

  Stenger, V Andrew ^a   Giurgi, Marius S ^b   Boada, Fernando E ^c,d   Noll, Douglas C ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Multishot tailored RF pulses; Reduced data methods; Susceptibility artifacts; UNFOLD

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME SERIES;

FUNCTIONAL MRI; REDUCED DATA; RF PULSE; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS; UNFOLD;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXCITATION; EXCITATION UNALIASING BY FOURIER ENCODING THE OVERLAP USING THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; TAILORED RADIOFREQUENCY PULSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME PERCEPTION; UNALIASING BY FOURIER ENCODING THE OVERLAP USING THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION;

EID: 33748338338     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21000     Document Type: Article

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