Gapped pulses for frequency-swept MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-273

  Idiyatullin, Djaudat ^a   Corum, Curt ^a   Moeller, Steen ^a   Garwood, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; Correlation spectroscopy; Frequency modulated pulse; MRI; Radial imaging

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

(PL) PROPERTIES; ELSEVIER (CO); EXCITATION PULSES; FLIP ANGLES; FOURIER; HYPERBOLIC SECANT; IMAGING OBJECTS; LINEAR REGIONS; RELATIVE ENERGIES; SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; SIGNALS OF INTEREST (SOI); SPIN EXCITATIONS; SPIN SYSTEMS; SPIN-SPIN RELAXATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 47549104057     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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