Single point imaging with suppressed sound pressure levels through gradient-shape adjustment

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-183

  Latta, Peter ^a,b   Gruwel, Marco L H ^a   Edie, Earle ^a   Šrámek, Miloš ^c   Tomanek, Boguslaw ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Gradient; Magnetic resonance imaging; Single point imaging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GRDIENTS; PHASE ENCODING; SINGLE POINT IMAGING (SPI); SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS (SPL);

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTIFACTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NOISE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 4544379596     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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