Whole-body 3D water/fat resolved continuously moving table imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 660-665

  Börnert, Peter ^a   Keupp, Jochen ^a   Eggers, Holger ^a   Aldefeld, Bernd ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D; Chemical shift selective; Continuously moving table imaging; IDEAL; Water fat imaging; Whole body

Indexed keywords

FAT; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33847606993     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20861     Document Type: Article

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