Acquisition-weighted stack of spirals for fast high-resolution three-dimensional ultra-short echo time MR imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-145

  Qian, Yongxian ^a,b   Boada, Fernando E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution; Pulse sequence; Short T2; Spiral trajectory; Ultra short TE

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EYE PROTECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

HIGH RESOLUTION; PULSE SEQUENCE; SHORT T2; SHORT TE; SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES;

IMAGE CODING;

ACQUISITION WEIGHTED STACK OF SPIRALS SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PARENCHYMA; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENINX; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CARTILAGE; OPTIC NERVE; PHANTOM; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SIGNAL DETECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 46849122037     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21620     Document Type: Article

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