Systematic variation of off-resonance prepulses for clinical magnetization transfer contrast imaging at 0.2, 1.5, and 3.0 Tesla

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-26

  Martirosian, Petros ^a   Boss, Andreas ^a   Deimling, Michael ^b   Kiefer, Berthold ^b   Schraml, Christina ^a   Schwenzer, Nina F ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct saturation effect; Magnetization transfer contrast; Magnetization transfer ratio; Specific absorption rate; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; GRAY MATTER; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY; KNEE; LIVER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPLEEN; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 37549039071     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181559949     Document Type: Article

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