Noise analysis and MR pulse sequence optimization in MREIT using an injected current nonlinear encoding (ICNE) method

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1391-1404

  Kwon, Oh In ^a   Lee, Byung Il ^b   Nam, Hyun Soo ^a   Park, Chunjae ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ICNE; MREIT

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACQUISITION TIME; CURRENT INJECTIONS; ENCODING METHODS; INJECTED CURRENT; INJECTED CURRENT NONLINEAR ENCODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHIES; MR PULSE SEQUENCE; NOISE ANALYSE; NOISE LEVELS; OPTIMAL DATA;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INJECTED CURRENT NONLINEAR ENCODING METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CURRENT DENSITY IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 35848932318     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/11/006     Document Type: Article

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