Inherent insensitivity to RF inhomogeneity in FLASH imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 927-931

  Wang, Danli ^a   Heberlein, Keith ^a   LaConte, Stephen ^a   Hu, Xiaoping ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Dept of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

FLASH; Flip angle; Image uniformity; MRI; RF inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FAST LOW ANGLE SHOTS; FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; FLASH; FLIP ANGLE; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; RF-INHOMOGENEITY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 4744349011     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20217     Document Type: Article

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