RASER: A new ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging method

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 794-799

  Chamberlain, Ryan ^a   Park, Jang Yeon ^a   Corum, Curt ^a   Yacoub, Essa ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a   Jack Jr , Clifford R ^b   Garwood, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp; Frequency swept pulse; MRI; Quadratic phase profile; Single shot imaging; Spatial encoding; Time encoding

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE RESOLUTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPIN POLARIZATION;

CHIRP; FREQUENCY SWEPT; QUADRATIC PHASE; SINGLE-SHOT IMAGING; SPATIAL ENCODING; TIME ENCODING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNET; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAPID ACQUISITION BY SEQUENTIAL EXCITATION AND REFOCUSING; SINGLE SHOT IMAGING; SPECTROMETER; TIME;

EID: 35048844132     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21396     Document Type: Article

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