Improved diffusion-weighting efficiency of pulsed gradient stimulated echo MR measurements with background gradient cross-term suppression

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-290

  Finsterbusch, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background gradients; Cross term compensation; Diffusion; MAGSTE; PGSTE

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; GRADIENT METHODS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BACKGROUND GRADIENTS; CROSS TERM COMPENSATION; GRADIENT PULSE LENGTHS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 40949093009     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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