Automatic correction of Echo-Planar Imaging (EPI) ghosting artifacts in real-time interactive cardiac MRI using sensitivity encoding

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 239-245

  Kim, Yoon Chul ^a,b   Nielsen, Jon Fredrik ^a   Nayak, Krishna S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Echo misalignment; Echo planar imaging (EPI); Ghosting artifacts; Real time interactive MRI; Sensitivity encoding (SENSE)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 37848998506     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21214     Document Type: Article

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