B1-insensitive fast spin echo using adiabatic square wave enabling of the echo train (SWEET) excitation

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1386-1393

  Madhuranthakam, Ananth J ^a,c   Busse, Reed F ^a   Brittain, Jean H ^a   Rofsky, Neil M ^b   Alsop, David C ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3T; Adiabatic excitation; B1 inhomogeneity; B1 nonuniformity; FSE

Indexed keywords

HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIZATION;

ABDOMINAL IMAGES; ADIABATIC EXCITATION; EXCITATION PULSE; FAST SPIN ECHOS; HYPERBOLIC SECANT PULSE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; NONUNIFORMITY;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; ARTIFACT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ABDOMEN; ARTIFACTS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 44949157970     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21630     Document Type: Article

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