Joint estimation of water/fat images and field inhomogeneity map

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 571-580

  Hernando, Diego ^a,b   Haldar, J P ^a,b   Sutton, B P ^a,b   Ma, J ^c   Kellman, P ^d   Liang, Z P ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dixon imaging; Field map estimation; IDEAL; Linear prediction; Variable projection

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; FIELD MAP ESTIMATIONS; IDEAL; LINEAR PREDICTION; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; VARIABLE PROJECTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

FAT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION;

EID: 40449084740     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21522     Document Type: Article

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