Moment and direction of the spoiler gradient for effective artifact suppression in RF-spoiled gradient echo imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-127

  Leupold, Jochen ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Gradient echo; RF spoiling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT SUPPRESSION; ARTIFACTS; GRADIENT ECHO; GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF-SPOILING; ROBUST TECHNIQUE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOFREQUENCY SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SLICE DIRECTION; SPOILING MOMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 46849105903     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21614     Document Type: Article

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