Unilateral MRI using a rastered projection

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 151-159

  Bray, Christina L ^a   Hornak, Joseph P ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backprojection reconstruction; Imaging; Instrumentation; MRI; Single sided MRI; Surface MRI; Unilateral MRI

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; SINGLE SIDED MRI; STRAY FIELDS;

ELECTRIC COILS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 34548442889     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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