Inversion recovery prepared turbo spin echo sequences with reduced SAR using smooth transitions between pseudo steady states

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 631-637

  Weigel, Matthias ^a   Zaitsev, Maxim ^a   Hennig, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

FLAIR; FSE; Hyperecho; Inversion recovery; SAR; STIR; TRAPS; TSE; Variable flip angles

Indexed keywords

RADAR IMAGING; SPIN POLARIZATION;

FLAIR; FLIP ANGLE; HYPERECHO; INVERSION RECOVERY; STIR; TRAPS;

RECOVERY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVERSION RECOVERY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; TIME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33847743890     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21170     Document Type: Article

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