MP-SAGE: A new MP-RAGE sequence with enhanced SNR and CNR for brain imaging utilizing square-spiral phase encoding and variable flip angles

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 824-834

  Stöcker, Tony ^a   Shah, N Jon ^a,b,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

MP RAGE; Phase graph description; Phase encoding order; Structural brain imaging; Variable flip angles

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; TISSUE;

BRAIN IMAGING; FLIP ANGLE; MP-RAGE; PHASE ENCODING; PHASE GRAPHS;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED RAPID GRADIENT ECHO; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED SPIRAL ACQUISITION GRADIENT ECHO; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY;

EID: 33749176780     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21011     Document Type: Article

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