Design, construction and evaluation of an anthropomorphic head phantom with realistic susceptibility artifacts

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 202-207

  Shmueli, Karin ^a   Thomas, David L ^b   Ordidge, Roger J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic head phantom; Geometric distortion; High field MRI; Signal dropout assessment; Susceptibility artifacts

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HEAD; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE;

ARTIFACTS; CHLORIDES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 34547744324     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20993     Document Type: Article

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