Wideband SSFP: Alternating repetition time balanced steady state free precession with increased band spacing

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 931-938

  Nayak, Krishna S ^a,d   Lee, Hsu Lei ^a   Hargreaves, Brian A ^b   Hu, Bob S ^c  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d EEB 406 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating repetition time; Balanced SSFP; Banding artifacts; MRI pulse sequence; Oscillating steady states

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING REPETITION TIME; BALANCED SSFP; BANDING ARTIFACT; PULSE SEQUENCE; STEADY STATE;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION;

EID: 35948967623     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21296     Document Type: Article

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