A solution to the dynamic range problem in MRI using a parallel image acquisition

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 161-167

  Otake, Yosuke ^a   Kose, Katsumi ^a   Haishi, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b MRTechnology Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter; Dynamic range; K space; MRI; Receiver

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750885701     PISSN: 15525031     EISSN: 1552504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.b.20071     Document Type: Article

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