On the application of chemical shift-based multipoint water-fat separation methods in balanced SSFP imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 413-418

  Kim, Hyeonjin ^a   Pinus, Alexander B ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^a   Murphy, Philip S ^b   Constable, R Todd ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balanced SSFP; Fat quantification; Liver; MRI; Multipoint water fat separation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEPARATION;

BALANCED SSFP; HIGH SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIOS (SNR); IMAGING CONDITIONS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; REGION OF INTEREST; SEPARATION METHODS; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS; TISSUE CHARACTERISTICS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION;

EID: 34547931892     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21303     Document Type: Article

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