Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in DENSE MRI by combining displacement-encoded echoes

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 188-192

  Kim, Daniel ^a   Epstein, Frederick H ^b   Gilson, Wesley D ^b   Axel, Leon ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DENSE; Heart; MRI; Myocardial strain; Wall motion

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; DENSE; DISPLACEMENT ENCODING WITH STIMULATED ECHOES; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; MYOCARDIAL TAGGING; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WALL MOTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISPLACEMENT ENCODING WITH STIMULATED ECHOES MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 4644299581     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20109     Document Type: Article

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