3D magnetization prepared elliptical centric fast gradient echo imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 434-439

  Lin, Chen ^a   Bernstein, Matt A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

3D T1 weighted imaging; Elliptical centric; IR SPGR; MP RAGE; Structural brain imaging; View ordering

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIZATION;

BRAIN IMAGING; ELLIPTICAL CENTRIC; MP-RAGE; T1-WEIGHTED; VIEW ORDERING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETISM; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 38949170615     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21448     Document Type: Article

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