Comparison of the effectiveness of saturation pulses in the heart at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 209-215

  Kim, Daniel ^a   Gonen, Oded ^a   Oesingmann, Niels ^b,c   Axel, Leon ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Umicore Autocat USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; B0 inhomogeneity; B1 inhomogeneity; Cardiac perfusion; Heart; MRI; Saturation; T1

Indexed keywords

HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

ADIABATIC PULSE; CARDIAC PERFUSION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; INHOMOGENEITIES; MAGNETIZATION-SATURATION; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; RESIDUAL MAGNETIZATION; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

ADIABATICITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIRST PASS EFFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PULSE RATE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 37549070776     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21423     Document Type: Article

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