Doubling the resolution of echo-planar brain imaging by acquisition of two k-space lines per gradient reversal using TRAIL

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-88

  Priest, Andrew N ^a,b,d   de Vita, Enrico ^a,c   Ordidge, Roger J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Echo planar imaging; Fast imaging; Interleaved images; Resolution; Stimulated echo; TRAIL

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE BLURRING; INTERLEAVED IMAGES; NYQUIST GHOSTING; STIMULATED ECHO; TWO REDUCED ACQUISITIONS INTERLEAVED;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 40449131573     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1155     Document Type: Article

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