Abdominal Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3.0 T. What Is the Ultimate Gain in Signal-to-Noise Ratio?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1236-1243

  Schindera, Sebastian T ^a   Merkle, Elmar M ^a   Dale, Brian M ^b   DeLong, David M ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Abdomen; magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPLEEN;

EID: 33748577687     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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