Cross-term-compensated pulsed-gradient stimulated echo MR with asymmetric gradient pulse lengths

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-48

  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; Generalized MAGSTE; MAGSTE

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ECHO SUPPRESSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BACKGROUND GRADIENTS; CROSS-TERM COMPENSATION; GENERALIZED MAGSTE;

GRADIENT METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44649126711     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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