k-Space spatial low-pass filters can increase signal loss artifacts in echo-planar imaging

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-114

  Caparelli, E C ^a   Tomasi, D ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

EPI GRE; k Space; Signal loss; Spatial low pass filter

Indexed keywords

LOW PASS FILTERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL-DEPENDENT (BOLD); ECHO PLANAR IMAGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FILTER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 38949177441     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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