Artifact reduction in moving-table acquisitions using parallel imaging and multiple averages

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 226-232

  Fautz, Hans Peter ^a   Honal, M ^a   Saueressig, U ^a   Schafer O ^a   Kannengiesser, S A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free breathing; Ghosting; Gradient linearity; GRAPPA; Magnetization saturation; Moving table; Parallel imaging; Turbo spin echo imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SPIN POLARIZATION;

FREE BREATHING; GHOSTING; GRAPPA; MAGNETIZATION-SATURATION; MOVING TABLE; PARALLEL IMAGING; TURBO SPIN-ECHO IMAGING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING MECHANICS; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GENERALIZED AUTOCALIBRATING PARTIALLY PARALLEL ACQUISITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TURBO SPIN ECHO IMAGING;

EID: 33846118318     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21117     Document Type: Article

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