Interleaved narrow-band PRESS sequence with adiabatic spatial-spectral refocusing pulses for 1H MRSI at 7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 973-979

  Balchandani, Priti ^a,c   Pauly, John ^a   Spielman, Daniel ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

7T; Adiabatic; B1 inhomogeneity; High field; MRSI; Spectral interleaving

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLITES; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ADIABATIC; HIGH FIELD; INHOMOGENEITIES; MRSI; SPECTRAL INTERLEAVING;

PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADIABATIC SPATIAL SPECTRAL REFOCUSING PULSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITION RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY SEQUENCE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PULSE WAVE; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 42549105064     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21539     Document Type: Article

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