Imaging periodic currents using alternating balanced steady-state free precession

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-148

  Buračas, Giedrius T ^a   Liu, Thomas T ^a   Buxton, Richard B ^a   Frank, Lawrence R ^a   Wong, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating balanced steady state; Balanced SSFP; Neuronal currents; Oscillating equilibrium

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BALANCED SSFP; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHOS; MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; SPIN MAGNETIZATION; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

NEURONS;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALTERNATING BALANCED STEADY STATE SIGNAL; ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE;

EID: 37549057693     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21457     Document Type: Article

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