Improved cine displacement-encoded MRI using balanced steady-state free precession and time-adaptive sensitivity encoding parallel imaging at 3T

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 591-601

  Kim, Daniel ^a   Kellman, Peter ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement; Function; MRI; SENSE; SSFP; Strain; Tagging; TSENSE

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PARALLEL IMAGING; STEADY-STATE FREE PRECESSION; TIME-ADAPTIVE SENSITIVITY ENCODING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIASTOLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTOLE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447313816     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1126     Document Type: Article

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