Multiple-profile homogeneous image combination: Application to phase-cycled SSFP and multicoil imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 732-738

  Çukur, Tolga ^a   Lustig, Michael ^a   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data combination; Parallel imaging; Phased array; Sensitivity estimation; SSFP

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DATA COMBINATION; FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; NONLINEAR COMBINATION; PARALLEL IMAGING; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ESTIMATION; SSFP; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 51449099031     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21720     Document Type: Article

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