Water-fat separation with bipolar multiecho sequences

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-209

  Lu, Wenmiao ^a,d   Yu, Huanzhou ^b   Shimakawa, Ann ^b   Alley, Marcus ^a   Reeder, Scott B ^c   Hargreaves, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar sequences; Chemical shift; Field inhomogeneities; Multiecho sequences; Tikhonov regularization; Water fat separation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIPOLAR SEQUENCES; FIELD MAP ESTIMATIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MULTIECHO SEQUENCES; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

WATER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 46849084374     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21583     Document Type: Article

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