Using adiabatic inversion pulses for long-T2 suppression in ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 952-961

  Larson, Peder E Z ^a   Conolly, Steven M ^a,b   Pauly, John M ^a   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; Long T2 suppression; Short T2 imaging; Ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; HISTOLOGY; SPIN POLARIZATION; TISSUE;

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ADIABATIC PULSE; LONG-T2 SUPPRESSION; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; SCALING FACTORS; SHORT T2; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNEE MENISCUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; TENDON; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME IMAGING;

EID: 35948947385     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21341     Document Type: Article

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